(from the article "cirripede") ...be eaten on fasting days. The Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus was aware of the myth, for he named the genus Lepas ("Shellfish") and the local species L. anatifera and L. ...
(from the article "Western architecture") The early years of the 18th century saw the artistic centre of Europe shift from Rome to Paris. Pierre Lepautre, working under Hardouin-Mansart on the interiors of the Chateau de ...
people of eastern Nepal, western Bhutan, Sikkim state, and the Darjeeling district of West Bengal in India. They number about 46,000 (11,000 in India; 25,000 in Sikkim; and 10,000 in ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "leprosy") ...it or treating the symptoms. Even into the 20th century, the only effective control applied to prevent the spread of the disease was compulsory segregation of the patient, frequently in ...
(from the article "Lesbos") ...The island is largely volcanic in the west, and numerous thermal springs indicate the unstable subterranean structure that has caused severe earthquakes throughout history. The principal peak, Mount Lepethymnus (Ayios ...
(from the article "Celastrales") Lepidobotryaceae is a small family of two genera and two or three species of trees, Lepidobotrys staudtii being known from East Africa and Ruptiliocarpon caracolito growing in Central and South ...
(from the article "Celastrales") Lepidobotryaceae is a small family of two genera and two or three species of trees, Lepidobotrys staudtii being known from East Africa and Ruptiliocarpon caracolito growing in Central and South ...
(from the article "branchiopod") ...originated in pre-Devonian times, for in the Devonian period a distinct order and suborder are evident: the Lipostraca and the Spinicaudata, respectively. The Lipostraca contains only Lepidocaris rhyniensis, from the ...
(from the article "Oxide minerals") ...and the most common ingredient of iron rust. It was named in 1806 for J.W. von Goethe, a German poet and philosopher with a keen interest in minerals. The name ...
(from the article "lycophyte") ...herbaceous (rarely woody), homosporous lycophytes; about 8 genera, including Baragwanathia and Protolepidodendron.Extinct tree lycophytes, therefore capable of secondary growth; heterosporous, with some strobili (cones) forming seedlike structures; about 6 ...
extinct genus of tree-sized lycopsid plants that lived during the Carboniferous Period (360 to 300 million years ago). Lepidodendron and its relatives-Lepidophloios, Bothrodendron, and Paralycopodites-were related to modern club mosses. ... [2 Related Articles]
the most common lithium mineral, basic potassium and lithium aluminosilicate; a member of the common mica group. It is economically important as a major source of lithium. Because it is ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "perciform") ...are quickly seized. Similar but less powerful squirting behaviour is also found in the butterfly fish. Another interesting type of feeding behaviour is seen in an African cichlid, which practices ...
(from the article "Lepidodendron") extinct genus of tree-sized lycopsid plants that lived during the Carboniferous Period (360 to 300 million years ago). Lepidodendron and its relatives-Lepidophloios, Bothrodendron, and Paralycopodites-were related to modern club mosses. ...
any of more than 155,000 species of butterflies, moths, and skippers. This order of insects is second in size only to Coleoptera, the beetles. [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "reptile") ...1.5 to about 7 metres (5 to 23 feet) in total length; some extinct species grew to 15 metres (49 feet) long.Upper Jurassic to present. Two orders. ...
genus of cycads in the family Zamiaceae. The two species in the genus are restricted to the eastern coast of Australia. They can form substantial trunks that are clothed by ...
(from the article "branchiopod") ...Laevicaudata and Spinicaudata are particularly characteristic of temporary waters, where they survive dry periods as resting eggs. The anostracan Branchinecta paludosa and the notostracan Lepidurus arcticus are regularly found in ...
(from the article "Panama Canal") ...matter when he sided with Chief Engineer John Frank Stevens, who argued for a lock-type canal. The plan ultimately approved by Congress was similar in all essential respects to the ...
(from the article "fungus") ...Insect-fungus associations found in the tropical forests of Central and South America include the unique relationship of leafcutter ants (sometimes called parasol ants) with fungi in the family Lepiotaceae (phylum ...
segment of the Central Alps along the Italian-Swiss border, bounded by the Simplon Pass and Pennine Alps (west-southwest), the Upper Rhone and Vorderrhein river valleys (north), Splugen Pass (Italian Passo ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "amphibian") ...continues to emerge, and a combined structure is used below. In this classification, Adelospondyli, Aistopoda, Microsauria, and Nectridea are listed as extinct orders within the superorder Lepospondyli, and Temnospondylia and ...
in Irish folklore, fairy in the form of a tiny old man often with a cocked hat and leather apron. Solitary by nature, he is said to live in remote ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "leprosy") In the second type of reaction, giving rise to what is called lepromatous leprosy, there is very little cellular response, and the bacilli can multiply freely. The organisms are found ...
chronic infectious disease that affects the skin, the peripheral nerves (nerves outside the brain and spinal cord), and the mucous membranes of the nose, throat, and eyes. It is caused ... [14 Related Articles]
(from the article "Balkhash, Lake") ...of the total influx into the lake until a hydroelectric project reduced the volume of the river's inflow late in the 20th century. Only such small rivers as the Qaratal, ...
German Egyptologist and a founder of modern, scientific archaeology who did much to catalog Egyptian archaeological remains and to establish a chronology for Egyptian history. [4 Related Articles]
genus of extinct brachiopods (lamp shells) commonly found as fossils in Ordovician to Lower Carboniferous sedimentary rocks (between 488 million and 318 million years old). The very distinctive shell of ...
(from the article "nutritional disease") ...1990s research with genetically obese laboratory animals led to the discovery of the ob gene in mice and humans. Under the direction of this gene, adipose (fat) tissue cells secrete ...
(354 BC), ancient Athenian tax measure, subject of an early speech of the orator Demosthenes. The law, named for the man who proposed it, was backed by the Athenian statesman ...
largest city of the ancient region of Tripolitania. It is located 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast of Libya. Lying 2 miles (3 km) east ... [4 Related Articles]
small Carthaginian city located 10 miles (16 km) from modern Al-Munastir (Ruspinum), Tunisia. In Roman times it was the centre of a prosperous olive-growing district, and its exports included olive ...
(from the article "eel") ...and Notacanthiformes). A prolarva, hatching from a relatively large egg (up to 2.5 millimetres [about 332 inch] diameter), rapidly becomes a leaflike leptocephalus, which floats in the surface layers of ...
(from the article "ceratopsian") ...were mostly bipedal and lived during the Early Cretaceous; they had a beak, a small frill, and no horns. Members of the Protoceratopsidae, including Protoceratops and Leptoceratops, were mostly quadrupedal ...
family of frogs (order Anura), including more than 900 species, most of which are found in South and Central America. Leptodactylid frogs live in water, on land, or in trees. ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Anura") ...840 species; adult length 2 to about 20 cm (1 to 8 inches); 4 subfamilies: Ceratophryinae (South America), Telmatobiinae (South and Central America, West Indies), Hylodinae (South America), and Leptodactylinae ...
extinct genus of pelecypods (clams) found as fossils in Silurian to Lower Carboniferous rocks (between 438 and 320 million years old). Its distinct shell, roughly oval except for a sharp ...
(from the article "water flea") ...to 3.0 millimetres (0.01 to 0.12 inch) long. It has a discrete head bearing antennae and a bivalve carapace that encloses all or most of the trunk and abdomen. An ...
extinct genus of articulate brachiopods, or lamp shells, of the Permian period (286 to 245 million years ago). Leptodus, a very specialized form characterized by an aberrant morphology, had an ...
(from the article "coreid bug") A number of species of coreid bug (e.g., Leptoglossus phyllopus of North America and L. membranaceus of Australia) have enlarged or flattened extensions on their legs, hence the common name ...
(from the article "coreid bug") A number of species of coreid bug (e.g., Leptoglossus phyllopus of North America and L. membranaceus of Australia) have enlarged or flattened extensions on their legs, hence the common name ...
(from the article "bryophyte") ...for example, a complex conducting strand is often formed in the centre of the stem. It consists of an internal cylinder of water-conducting cells (the hydroids) surrounded by layers of ...
genus of marine fishes very closely related to the first teleosts, the dominant group of fishes in the world today. Leptolepis was abundant in the world's Mesozoic seas and was ...
(from the article "cnidarian") ...which polyp may withdraw (a condition known as gymnoblastic); few species with calcareous exoskeleton. Most abundant in bays and shallow coastal waters.Medusae saucer-shaped, but lacking in many species. Gonads ...
(from the article "meninges") ...remnants of the common origin of the arachnoid and pia mater, and they have the frail structure characteristic of these two of the meninges. The pia mater and arachnoid together ...
(from the article "fungus") ...in fresh water, wet soil, and marine habitats, some are pathogenic (such as Saprolegnia and Phytophthora); contains about 600 species in 90 genera.Aquatic, saprobic, often found in polluted water; ...
any member of a class of subatomic particles that respond only to the electromagnetic force, weak force, and gravitational force and are not affected by the strong force. Leptons are ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "lepton") ...particles, the fermions, which are characterized by half-integer values of their spin. The total number of leptons appears to remain the same in every particle reaction. Mathematically, total lepton number ...
(from the article "fern") ...intermediate in spore number between eusporangia and leptosporangia, the annulus a lateral patch of thick-walled cells; 4 genera (Osmunda, Osmundopteris, Todea, and Leptopteris) and 20 modern species, distributed nearly worldwide.
one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Leptosols are soils with a very shallow profile depth (indicating little influence of ...
(from the article "cuckoo roller") ...discolor; see photograph), little-known bird of Madagascar and the neighbouring Comoros, named for its superficial resemblance to cuckoos but usually deemed the sole member of the family Leptosomatidae (sometimes treated ...
genus of about 40 species of subtropical evergreen shrubs or small trees, in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), native to Australasia. Several species have been introduced to temperate regions and grown ...
(from the article "leptospirosis") ...communicable to humans, that is characterized by extensive inflammation of the blood vessels. It is caused by a spirochete, or spiral-shaped bacterium, of the genus Leptospira.
acute systemic illness of animals, occasionally communicable to humans, that is characterized by extensive inflammation of the blood vessels. It is caused by a spirochete, or spiral-shaped bacterium, of the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "fern") ...more than 1 mm (0.04 inch) in diameter down to microscopic stalked structures, the capsules of which are only 0.3 mm (0.01 inch) in diameter. The former are known as ...
(from the article "heredity") ...the diploid parent cell is shown to contain a single pair of homologous chromosomes, one member of which is represented in blue (from the father) and the other in red ...
(from the article "chigger") ...E.batatus of North America. In Europe Neotrombiculaautumnalis attacks not only humans but also cattle, dogs, horses, and cats. In the East Asia certain species of Leptotrombidium carry the ...
(from the article "snake") ...northern South America. Size small, 15-40 cm. Pelvic vestiges absent. Tracheal lung present. Possible fossil from the Paleocene of Texas.105 species in ...
(from the article "Celastrales") Parnassiaceae, with two genera, includes annual to perennial herbs. Parnassia contains 50 species that grow in the north temperate to Arctic region. Lepuropetalon spathulatum, the only species of its genus, ...
(from the article "Solorese") ...influenced by Islamic and Christian missionaries as early as the 16th century. Today most are Muslim, except for the Roman Catholics on Flores. The indigenous religion honoured the high god ...
(from the article "Mexico") ...(Nov. 23, 1855), which abolished fueros (special exemptions) and the use of special military and ecclesiastical courts in civil cases. The minister of finance, Miguel Lerdo de ...
(from the article "children's literature") ...de France): "Children's literature, more's the pity, is dying." And in 1937, in their introduction to Beaux livres, belles histoires, the compilers Marguerite Gruny and Mathilde Leriche ...
Cistercian monastery, originally founded about 410 by St. Honoratus of Arles on a Mediterranean island opposite Cannes (now in France). It flourished in the 5th century, when it was a ...
river in west-central Mexico. It rises on the Mesa Central 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Toluca and flows northwestward through the state of Mexico, forming the short border between ... [3 Related Articles]
Spanish statesman who died a cardinal, having been the first of the validos-strong men or favourites-through whom the Habsburg kings were to govern Spain until the end ... [3 Related Articles]
the leading Russian Romantic poet and author of the novel Geroy nashego vremeni (1840; A Hero of Our Time), which was to have a profound influence on later Russian writers. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Aegean civilizations") Lerna and other settlements on the mainland were eventually surrounded by massive walls with projecting towers, and neighbouring islands like Aigina or Syros in the Cyclades also had towered walls ...
American dermatologist headed a team of researchers at Yale University who in 1958 discovered the hormone melatonin. In searching for a cure for disorders of skin pigmentation such as ... [1 Related Articles]
American librettist and lyricist who collaborated with composer Frederick Loewe on the hit Broadway musicals Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), and Camelot (1960) and the ... [4 Related Articles]
Soviet mathematician (b. Sept. 7, 1913, Vinnytsya, Ukraine-d. April 5, 2004, Rehovot, Israel), was a pioneer in cybernetics-the study of control and communication applied to humans, animals, electronic devices, and ...
American educator, author, and syndicated columnist who was an influential spokesman for liberal political and economic views. Lerner's article on liberalism appeared in the 14th edition of the
prolific and popular dramatist, poet, and novelist, many of whose works exhibit nostalgia for pre-World War I Austrian aristocracy. In particular, his novel Die Standarte (1934), by depicting military unrest ...
island, one of the Dodecanese islands of Greece, in the Aegean Sea, east of the Cyclades and off the southwest coast of Turkey. It is surrounded by numerous islets and ...
(from the article "Sand, George") ...and Frederic Chopin. She remained impervious to Musset's skeptical views and Chopin's aristocratic prejudices, while the man whose opinions she adopted wholeheartedly, the philosopher Pierre Lerous, was never her lover. ...
(from the article "South African literature") ...view of life, and their dissatisfaction with apartheid and the authoritarian character of Afrikaner society under the ruling National Party. The most important of the Sestigers were the novelists Etienne ...
French novelist, best known for his Le Fantome de l'opera (1910; The Phantom of the Opera), which later became famous in various film and stage renditions.
French pantheistic philosopher, economist, pacifist, government official, and champion of socialism through various reviews and newspapers that he helped found.
(from the article "Belanger, Francois-Joseph") Belanger was educated at the College de Beauvais, where he was taught physics by the Abbe Nollet and studied architecture under J.-D. Leroy. He visited England at least once, and ...
(from the article "art criticism") ...by artists who wished to turn their backs on it entirely." Claude Monet showed five paintings, one called Impression, Sunrise (1872), which inspired French critic Louis Leroy ...
American motion-picture director whose wide variety of 75 films included dramas (Little Caesar [1930], I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang [1932], Thirty Seconds over Tokyo [1944]), romances (Tugboat ...
leader of the Spanish Radical Party who headed four governments during the period of centre-right rule (1933-35) in the Second Republic (1931-39). [2 Related Articles]
chief town of Scotland's Shetland Islands, an archipelago lying 130 miles (210 km) north of the Scottish mainland. Lerwick is the most northerly town in Britain. It is situated on ... [1 Related Articles]
village, Bouches-du-Rhone departement, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region, southeastern France, on a spur of the Alpilles Hills rising abruptly from the valley floor, northeast of Arles. ...
town, southwestern Haiti, on the southern Caribbean shore of the southern peninsula. Founded in 1786, it was plagued by disease and pirates during colonial times. In 1815 the South American ...
(from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...floats, or by geared counterweights. Hydraulic lifts with twin caissons were constructed in 1875 at Anderton, Eng., with a 50-foot lift for 60-ton vessels; in 1888 lifts were constructed at ...
(from the article "Channel Islands") ...grouped into two distinct bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey, with differing constitutions. Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, Lihou, and Brecqhou are Guernsey's dependencies, and the Ecrehous rocks and Les Minquiers are ...
prolific French satirical dramatist and author of the classic picaresque novel Gil Blas, which was influential in making the picaresque form a European literary fashion. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "East African mountains") The Aberdare Range, of which the highest peak is Mount Lesatima (Satima), reaching a height of 13,120 feet, and the Mau Escarpment rise steeply from the eastern portion of the ...
(after its capital), largest island after Crete and Euboea in the Aegean Sea, forming with Lemnos and Ayios Evstratios islands the nomos (department) of Lesbos, Greece. The capital of the ... [6 Related Articles]
