Mayan Indians living in a territory on the Mexico-Guatemala border. Some Lacandon probably live in Belize, across the eastern border of Guatemala. Currently divisible into two major groups, the total number of Lacandon is less than 600 and decreasing. They ...
in geology, any of a type of igneous intrusion that has split apart two strata, resulting in a domelike structure; the floor of the structure is usually horizontal. A laccolith is often smaller than a stock, which is another type ...
ornamental, openwork fabric formed by looping, interlacing, braiding (plaiting), or twisting threads. The dividing line between lace and embroidery, which is an ornamentation added to an already completed fabric, is not easy to draw; a number of laces, such as ...
any insect of the easily recognized cosmopolitan family Tingidae (order Heteroptera), which numbers about 2,000 species. The adult, usually less than 5 mm (0.2 inch) long, has a lacelike pattern of ridges and membranous areas on its wings and upper ...
collection of decorative lace patterns produced in the 16th and 17th centuries. The earliest known printed pattern books, beginning with those published in 1527 by Matio Pagano in Venice and Pierre de Quinty in Cologne, were dedicated to and intended ...
genus of lizards of the family Lacertidae that includes among its more than 50 species most European lizards and some Asian and African species. Lacerta species have well-developed limbs and deeply notched tongues. They have small back scales and large ...
any of many species of neuropteran insects, especially those in the green lacewing family Chrysopidae and in the brown lacewing family Hemerobiidae, of the order Neuroptera. The green lacewing, sometimes known as the golden-eyed lacewing, has long delicate antennae, a ...
city, Montreal region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It is a western suburb of Montreal city in the Montreal Metropolitan Corporation. Lachine lies on the south shore of Montreal Island facing Lake Saint-Louis, which is a widening of the St. Lawrence ...
chief tributary of the Murrumbidgee River, in New South Wales, Australia. Rising in the Great Dividing Range (Eastern Highlands), 8 miles (13 km) east of Gunning, it flows northwest, and, 30 miles (48 km) upstream from Cowra, it is dammed ...
German founder of modern textual criticism, or the methodology of determining the definitive text of a written work. His commentary (1850) on Lucretius' De rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things") was perhaps his greatest achievement and has been regarded ...
village, northeastern Sikkim state, northeastern India, on the Lachung River, a tributary of the Tista. A small trading centre (corn [maize] and pulses), it is equipped with a dispensary, rest house, and monastery and is linked to Gangtok, Sikkim's capital, ...
county, northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., bordered by Choke Creek to the southwest and the Lehigh River to the southeast. Its terrain is topographically complex. The Lackawanna River, bordered on the southeast by the Moosic Mountains, bisects the county northeast-southwest. Recreational areas ...
city, Erie county, western New York, U.S., on Lake Erie, adjoining Buffalo (north). Originally part of an Indian reservation, it was settled in the 1850s as part of West Seneca and was known as Limestone Hill. It was primarily a ...
nomos (department) and historic region in the southeastern part of the Peloponnese, southern Greece. The present department of Laconia corresponds closely to the ancient province, which was bounded by Arcadia and Argolis on the north and Messenia in the west. ...
city, seat of Belknap county, central New Hampshire, U.S., on the Winnipesaukee River and bordering Winnisquam Lake and Opechee and Paugus bays of Lake Winnipesaukee. In a mountain setting, it is headquarters for the White Mountain National Forest. Nearby resorts ...
large, deep gulf on the southern Ionian Sea embraced by the two southernmost peninsulas of the Peloponnese, Greece, 35 miles (56 km) north-south and 30 miles (48 km) wide. Cape Malea, which divides the Gulf of Laconia from the Aegean ...
French tennis player who was a leading competitor in the late 1920s. As one of the powerful Four Musketeers (the others were Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, and Jacques Brugnon), he helped France win its first Davis Cup in 1927, starting ...
village, centre of an industrial complex in the Bearn region, Pyrenees-Atlantiques departement, southwestern France, northwest of Pau. The industrial complex was built after the discovery at Lacq of petroleum and, in 1951, of one of the greatest natural-gas fields in ...
certain metallic and wood objects to which coloured and frequently opaque varnishes called lacquer are applied. The word lacquer is derived from lac, which is the basis of some lacquers. The lacquer of East Asia, China, Japan, and Korea should ...
French mineralogist whose Mineraux des roches (1888; "The Minerals of Rocks"), written with the geologist Albert Michel-Levy, was a pioneer study of the optical properties of rock-forming minerals.
(French: "the crosier"), competitive sport, modern version of the North American Indian game of baggataway, in which two teams of players use long-handled, racketlike implements (crosses) to catch, carry, or throw a ball down the field or into the opponents' ...
Christian apologist and one of the most reprinted of the Latin Church Fathers, whose Divinae institutiones ("Divine Precepts"), a classically styled philosophical refutation of early-4th-century anti-Christian tracts, was the first systematic Latin account of the Christian attitude toward life. Lactantius ...
any of a group of enzymes found in the small intestine, liver, and kidney of mammals that catalyze the breakdown of lactose (milk sugar) into the simple sugars glucose and galactose. Lactase is particularly abundant during infancy. The enzyme is ...
secretion and yielding of milk by females after giving birth. The milk is produced by the mammary glands, which are contained within the breasts. (See also mammary gland.)
an organic compound belonging to the family of carboxylic acids, present in certain plant juices, in the blood and muscles of animals, and in the soil. It is the commonest acidic constituent of fermented milk products such as sour milk, ...
any member of several genera of gram-positive, rod- or sphere-shaped bacteria that produce lactic acid as the principal or sole end product of carbohydrate fermentation. Lactic-acid bacteria are aerotolerant anaerobes that are chiefly responsible for the pickling conditions necessary for ...
a genus of rod-shaped, gram-positive, non-spore-forming bacteria of the family Lactobacillaceae, widely distributed in animal feeds, silage, manure, and milk and milk products. Lactobacillus delbrueckii, a typical species, is 0.5 to 0.8 micrometre (mum; 1 mum = 10-6 metre) across ...
any of a class of cyclic organic esters, usually formed by reaction of a carboxylic acid group with a hydroxyl group or halogen atom present in the same molecule. Commercially important lactones include diketene and beta-propiolactone used in the synthesis ...
carbohydrate containing one molecule of glucose and one of galactose linked together. Composing about 2 to 8 percent of the milk of all mammals, lactose is sometimes called milk sugar. It is the only common sugar of animal origin. Lactose ...
any pond or lake viewed as an ecological unit of the biotic community and the physiochemical environment, within which mass and energy are cyclically exchanged. The factors affecting the lives and evolution of the organisms in still-water, or lentic, habitats ...
region of eastern Kashmir, part of Jammu and Kashmir state, in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. It contains the western Himalayan Ladakh Range. Ladakh covers about 45,000 square miles (117,000 square km) and includes the Karakoram Range and ...
segment of the Karakoram Range, extending southeastward for 230 miles (370 km) from the mouth of the Shyok River in northern Pakistan across northern India to the Tibetan (China) border. With a crest line of about 20,000 feet (6,100 m), ...
philosopher and psychologist whose textbooks were influential in establishing experimental psychology in the United States. He called for a scientific psychology, but he viewed psychology as ancillary to philosophy.
chair with a tall back constructed of horizontal slats or spindles between two uprights. The type is usually rustic, and the seat is often of cane or rush.
American monthly magazine, one of the longest-running in the country and long the trendsetter among women's magazines. It was founded in 1883 as a women's supplement to the Tribune and Farmer (1879-85) of Cyrus H.K. Curtis and ...
any plant of the genus Spiranthes, family Orchidaceae, numbering as many as 300 species of orchids found in woods and grasslands throughout most of the world. Goodyera repens, an unrelated British species, is known as creeping ladies' tresses.
handwoven floor covering usually in a prayer design and made in or near Ladik, a town in the Konya Plain of south-central Turkey. Ladik prayer rugs have either a high, stepped arch design or a triple arch with a dominating ...
document executed by a carrier, such as a railroad or shipping line, acknowledging receipt of goods and embodying an agreement to transport the goods to a stated destination. Bills of lading are closely related to warehouse receipts, which contain an ...
