Vocabulary : Lion's foot to Liparian

Lion's foot : A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States. ;; The edelweiss.
Lion's leaf : A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.
Lion's tail : A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.
Lions' teeth : of Lion's tooth
Lion's tooth : See Leontodon.

Lionship : The state of being a lion.
Lip : One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. ;; An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel. ;; The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger. ;; One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla. ;; The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous. ;; One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell. ;; To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss. ;; To utter; to speak. ;; To clip; to trim.
Lipaemia : A condition in which fat occurs in the blood.
Lipans : A tribe of North American Indians, inhabiting the northern part of Mexico. They belong to the Tinneh stock, and are closely related to the Apaches.
Liparian : Any species of a family (Liparidae) of destructive bombycid moths, as the tussock moths.

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