LA´BEL, _n._ Card, ticket, or similar slip of paper, parchment, etc.,
affixed to an object, giving written information respecting it.
LAC´ERATE, LACIN´IATE, _a._ Cut or slashed on the edge or end into a
fringe or brush.
LACH´RYMAL (_bone_), _a._ A large stout bone forming part of the orbit.
LACU´NA, _n._ Small pit or depression; oftener, an open space or
vacuity, as in the palate.
LACU´NÆ, _n. pl._ Certain small excavations in bone and in mucous
membrane.
LACUS´TRINE, _a._ Lake-inhabiting.
LAMB´DOID, _a._ L-shaped.
LAMEL´LA, _n._; pl. _lamellæ_, LAM´INA, _n._; pl. _laminæ_, A thin plate
or scale; a plate-like process. The processes inside a duck’s bill are
lamellæ; the individual barbs of a feather are laminæ.
LAM´ELLATE, LAM´INATE, _a._ Having, or composed of, laminæ, or series of
plates.
LAMELLIROS´TRAL, _a._ Having a lamellate bill.
LAMELLIROS´TRES, _n. pl._ A group of lamellate-billed birds (the duck
tribe).
LAN´CEOLATE, _a._ Lance-head shaped; tapering narrowly at one end, less
so at the other.
LARYNGE´AL, _a._ Pertaining to the larynx.
LAR´YNX, _n._ Adam’s-apple, hollow cartilaginous organ, a modification
of the windpipe either at the top or bottom, but especially the former;
the lower larynx being called SYRINX (which see).
LAT´ERAL, _a._ To or towards the side; on either hand from the middle
line.
LAT´ERALLY, _a._ Sidewise.
LATIS´SIMUS, _a._ for _n._ A certain muscle of the back.