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lapillosus stony, as in the seeds of stone fruits.<br />

Laportea New Latin, from Francois Louis Nompar de Caumont La Force, comte de Castelnau, aka François<br />

Laporte, François Delaporte or Francis de Castelnau, 25 December 1810 to 4 February 1880), London born<br />

natural historian, versed in geography, paleontology, anthropology, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and insects,<br />

who studied in Paris and took part in expeditions to Canada, the United States, Texas (then a nation), and<br />

South America. He also served as French consul to Brazil, Siam, and Australia. He authored or coauthored<br />

over 90 papers under the names Laporte, Delaporte, and Castelnau. Laporte is known for his part in describing<br />

a hoax, a creature submitted by tricksters, part platypus, part lung fish and part eel. He unknowingly reported it<br />

to the Linnean Society in Sydney as an archaic fish which he named Ompax spatuloides. The hoax was not<br />

discovered for many years.<br />

lapp-, lappa, -lappa Latin a bur; burdock<br />

Lappa from Latin lappa, a burr, from Greek λαβεῖν, labein, to lay hold of, in reference to the fruits seizing<br />

erverthing that passes by. (Compositae)<br />

lappa -ae f. a bur, New Latin, from Latin lappa, lappae, name for a burr, or rough, for the burrs of goosegrass<br />

and burdock, Arctium lappa.<br />

lappaceus Lappa-like, bur-like, resembling Burdock, Lappa.<br />

lapponic Latin of Lapland<br />

lapponicus, lapponum of Lapland, of the home of the Lapps (northern Scandinavia).<br />

Lappula, lapulus -a -um Lapp'ula (LAP-yoo-la) <strong>with</strong> small burrs, covered <strong>with</strong> minute tufts of prickles or burrs,<br />

New Latin, from Latin lappa burr, and -ula, the diminutive of lappa.<br />

laps Latin slip, glide; a mistake<br />

lapsana, -lapsana Greek a kind of cress<br />

Lapsana New Latin, from Latin, charlock, from Greek lapsanē, lampsanē, lapsanae, a vegetable mentioned<br />

by Dioscorides, possibly actually Raphanus, <strong>with</strong> lyrate leaves resembling those of Lapsana. Alternately from<br />

Greek λάπτω, lapto, to purge. “Lapsana greatly relaxes the body,” Pliny. Some references to Lanpsana are<br />

known, in Gray Lampsana. (Compositae)<br />

lapsana (lampsana), ae, f. (also lapsanium, ii, n., Hier. ap. Reg. S. Pachom. 52), = λαψάνη, lapsane, and<br />

λαµψάνη, lampsane, an edible plant, charlock, Sinapis arvensis, Linn.; Plin. 20, 9, 37, § 96; Varr. R. R. 3, 16,<br />

25; Cels. 2, 25.<br />

—Prov.: lapsanā vivere, to live on a meagre diet, Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 144.<br />

lapsana, lapsanae an edible plant, charlock; (lampsana, lampsanae); lapsana, lampsana, lapsanium;<br />

λαψάνη; noun (f., 1st declension)<br />

Lapsanastrum Lapsana, generic name, and Latin -astrum, indicating inferiority or an incomplete<br />

resemblance<br />

laque, laqueus Latin a noose<br />

lar, lari, larus Latin a gull<br />

larc, larco, larcus Greek a basket<br />

Lardizabalaceae plants of the Lardizabala family.<br />

largiflorens profusely flowering.<br />

lari, laric, larix, larici- Latin the larch, referring to the genus Larix, the Larch tree<br />

laricifolius -a -um laricifo'lius (lar-is-i-FO-lee-us) <strong>with</strong> leaves like a larch, <strong>with</strong> larch-like leaves or needles.<br />

laricinus larch-like<br />

laricio larix, larch.<br />

larin-, larino Latin fat<br />

Larix (LA-riks) after the classical Latin name for larch, larix, laricem, from late Greek λάριξ, larix.<br />

Larrea Lar'rea (LARE-ee-a)<br />

larus, -larus Latin a gull<br />

larv, larva, larvi Latin a ghost, spectre<br />

larvatus masked (the difference in type of young and adult form.<br />

larvi New Latin a larva<br />

laryn, laryng, laryngo, larynx Greek the gullet, larynx<br />

lasar laser, see laser and silphium, meaning silphium.<br />

lasaratum silphium sauce, from Apicus.

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