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One who studies the Lepidoptera.

A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata.

erica. The name is also applied to a related African species (Protopterus annectens). The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also doko.

Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.

, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.

Like or pertaining to the Lepisma.

Of or pertaining to a hare; like or characteristic of, a hare.

Leprosy.

Leprosy.[Obs.] Wyclif.

Covered with thin, scurfy scales.

The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale. Bacon.

uction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.Mycobacterium leprae, curable in most cases by therapy with a combination of antibiotics, but cases resistant to therapy are increasing.

Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy. "His hand was leprous as snow." Ex. iv. 6.

Leprosy. [Obs.] Holland.

Having a form somewhat like leptus; -- said of active insect larvæ having three pairs of legs. See Larva.

bone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. [Written also Leptocardii.]

Of or pertaining to the Leptocardia. -- n.

A bird or other animal having slender toes. [Written also lepodactyle.]

, Having slender toes.

A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.