Category: L

  • Latrorsely

    Towards or along the sides.  

  • Latrorse

    (Of anthers) opening sideways or laterally, not inwards; (General) turned sideways, i.e. not towards or away from the axis.  

  • Latiseptose

    With broad partitions.  

  • Laticiferous

    Latex-bearing.  

  • Laterally

    On or at the side or margin. Towards or on the side of the body.  

  • Latent

    Resting, dormant, non-active. Referring to a disease which is present in the body but does not show any signs. Dormant; existing as a potential (e.g., latent diabetes, mild disorder of carbohydrate metabolism occurring only when stress loads of glucose are given).  

  • Lanulose

    Minutely woolly.  

  • Lanuginose

    Woolly, with long and inter-woven hairs.  

  • Lanose

    Woolly, with interwoven long woolly hairs.  

  • Lanceolate

    Narrowly ovate and tapering to a point at the apex. (This term has been interpreted in several ways; some 60 years ago German and Dutch authors used it to denote what we now call oblanceolate. In the illustration, a) depicts the current interpretation, b) Linnaeus’ and c) Lindley’s). Lance-shaped; long and narrow, diminishing to a…