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The manatee. [Written also lamentin, and lamantine.]

Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.

Lamarckism.

structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.

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Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.

A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.

A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

To beat severely. [Low] Nares.

Taken by licking with the tongue. "Sirups and lambative medicines." Sir T. Browne.

The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull. Lambda moth (Zoöl.), a moth so called from a mark on its wings, resembling the Greek letter lambda (

f the letter l when doubled, which consists in giving it a sound as if followed by y, similar to that of the letters lli in billion.

Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.

Same as Lambdoid.

Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A lambent flame." Dryden. "A lambent style." Beaconsfield.

The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.

merican ericaceous shrub (Kalmia angustifolia); -- called also calfkill, sheepkill, sheep laurel, etc. It is supposed to poison sheep and other animals that eat it at times when the snow is deep and they cannot find other food.

A small lamb.

Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive.

Same as Base, n., 19.