"members of the order Didelphimorphia. Captive populations have been observed eating butterfish mixed with meat, frogs, earthworms, shrimp at mice. Populations located close to urban areas have been known to scavenge through garbage but this behavior is isolated to these populations and likely occurs due necessity because there is less available prey in urban areas. Fossils found in Minas Gerais, Brazil indicate that L. crassicaudata emerged in the late Pleistocene epoch. Lutreolina fossils found in Tarija, Bolivia as well as samples uncovered across Argentina also indicate appearance of lutrine opossum ancestors during the late Pleistocene. For a short time in"
"Listerine Listerine is a brand of antiseptic mouthwash product. It is promoted with the slogan ""Kills germs that cause bad breath"". Named after Joseph Lister, a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, Listerine was developed in 1879 by Joseph Lawrence, a chemist in St. Louis, Missouri. Originally marketed by the Lambert Pharmacal Company (which later became Warner-Lambert), Listerine has been manufactured and distributed by Johnson & Johnson since that company's acquisition of Pfizer's consumer healthcare division in late December 2006. The Listerine brand name is also used in toothpaste, Listerine Whitening rinse, Listerine Fluoride rinse (Listerine Tooth Defense), Listerine SmartRinse (children's fluoride"
"recall. Listerine Listerine is a brand of antiseptic mouthwash product. It is promoted with the slogan ""Kills germs that cause bad breath"". Named after Joseph Lister, a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, Listerine was developed in 1879 by Joseph Lawrence, a chemist in St. Louis, Missouri. Originally marketed by the Lambert Pharmacal Company (which later became Warner-Lambert), Listerine has been manufactured and distributed by Johnson & Johnson since that company's acquisition of Pfizer's consumer healthcare division in late December 2006. The Listerine brand name is also used in toothpaste, Listerine Whitening rinse, Listerine Fluoride rinse (Listerine Tooth Defense), Listerine SmartRinse (children's"
"such as open defecation, and helped control the spread of many waterborne diseases The word ""Latrine"" is derived from the Latin ""lavatrina"", meaning bath. It is nowadays still commonly used in the term ""pit latrine"". It has the connotation of something being less advanced and less hygienic than a standard toilet. It is typically used to describe communal facilities, such as the shallow-trench latrines used in emergency sanitation situations, e.g. after an earthquake, flood or other natural disaster. Many forms of latrine technology have been used, from very simple to more complex. The more sophisticated the system, the more likely"
"- ""lustre of the eye"" in the Word Ogham of ""Morann mic Moín"" carae cethrae - ""friend of cattle"" in the Word Ogham of ""Mac ind Óc"" lúth cethrae - ""sustenance of cattle"" in the Word Ogham of ""Culainn"". Luis (letter) Luis (ᚂ) is the second letter of the Ogham alphabet, derived either from ""luise"" ""flame"" or from ""lus"" ""herb"". Its Proto-Indo-European root was either *""leuk-"" 'to shine' or *""leudh-"" 'to grow'. Its phonetic value is [l]. The ""Auraicept na n-Éces"" glosses the name as ""cairtheand"" ""mountain-ash"", i.e. ""rowan"" (Modern Irish ""caorthann""). The associated verse is : ""Li sula"" ""lustre"
"Latrine A latrine is a toilet or an even simpler facility which is used as a toilet within a sanitation system. For example, it can be a communal trench in the earth in a camp to be used as emergency sanitation, a hole in the ground (pit latrine), or more advanced designs, including pour-flush systems. The term ""latrine"" is still commonly used in emergency sanitation situations. Nowadays, the word ""toilet"" is more commonly used than ""latrine"", except for simple systems like ""pit latrine"" or ""trench latrine"". The use of latrines was a major advancement in sanitation over more basic practices"
"self-seeking. This is seen as lust. The Latin for ""extravagance"" (Latin: ""luxuria"") was used by St Jerome to translate a variety of biblical sins, including drunkenness and sexual excess. Gregory the Great placed ""luxuria"" as one of the seven capital sins (it is often considered the least serious of the seven deadly sins), narrowing its scope to disordered desire, and it was in this sense that the Middle Ages generally took ""luxuria"", (although the Old French cognate was adopted into English as ""luxury"" without its sexual meaning by the 14th century). In Romanesque art, the personified Luxuria is generally feminine,"
"often represented by a siren or a naked woman with breasts being bitten by snakes. Prudentius in his Psychomachia or Battle of the Soul had described Luxury, lavish of her ruined fame, Loose-haired, wild-eyed, her voice a dying fall, Lost in delight... For Dante, Luxuria was both the first of the circles of incontinence (or self-indulgence) on the descent into hell, and the last of the cornices of Mount Purgatory, representing the excessive (disordered) love of individuals; while for Spenser luxuria was synonymous with the power of desire. The daughters (by-products) of Luxuria, for Gregory and subsequent Thomism, included mental"
"Ludibrium Ludibrium is a word derived from Latin ""ludus"" (plural ""ludi""), meaning a plaything or a trivial game. In Latin ""ludibrium"" denotes an object of fun, and at the same time, of scorn and derision, and it also denotes a capricious game itself: e.g., ""ludibria ventis"" (Virgil), ""the playthings of the winds"", ""ludibrium pelagis"" (Lucretius), ""the plaything of the waves""; ""Ludibrio me adhuc habuisti"" (Plautus), ""Until now you have been toying with me."" The term ""ludibrium"" was used frequently by Johann Valentin Andreae (1587–1654) in phrases like ""the ludibrium of the fictitious Rosicrucian Fraternity"" when describing the Rosicrucian Order, most"
"Lute (material) Lute (from Latin ""Lutum"", meaning mud, clay etc.) was a substance used to seal and affix apparatus employed in chemistry and alchemy, and to protect component vessels against heat damage by fire; it was also used to line furnaces. ""Lutation"" was thus the act of ""cementing vessels with lute"". In pottery, luting is a technique for joining pieces of unfired leather-hard clay together, using a wet clay slip or slurry as adhesive. The complete object is then fired. Large objects are often built up in this way, for example the figures of the Terracotta Army in ancient China."
"Lutite Lutite is old terminology, which is not widely used, by Earth scientists in field descriptions for fine-grained, sedimentary rocks, which are composed of silt-size sediment, clay-size sediment, or a mixture of both. When mixed with water lutites often disintegrate into mud. Because this is a field term, there is a lack of any precise definition for it based upon specific grain-size characteristics. Lutites include a variety of fine-grained sedimentary rocks, including calcisiltite, calcilutite, claystone, mudstone, shale, and siltstone. It is equivalent to the term mudstone and the Greek-derived term pelite. Lutite was first used in 1904 by Grabau, who"
"derived it from the Latin word for mud. He also proposed a number of prefixes to be used with and attached to ""lutite"" in order to designated various types of lutites. None of these prefixes are used by Earth scientists nowadays. Pettijohn gives the following descriptive terms based on grain size, avoiding the use of terms such as ""clay"" or ""argillaceous"" which carry an implication of chemical composition: Lutite Lutite is old terminology, which is not widely used, by Earth scientists in field descriptions for fine-grained, sedimentary rocks, which are composed of silt-size sediment, clay-size sediment, or a mixture of"
"for urine was ""ūrīna"", which is attested in Latin as early as Cicero, and became the usual polite term. The relationship with the Greek verb (""oureō""), ""to urinate"", is not clear. In Classical Latin, however, the verb ""ūrīnārī"" meant ""to dive into water"", and ""ūrīnātor"" was ""a diver"", ""ūrīnantēs"" ""those who dive"". Catullus (37) writes contemptuously of a certain Spaniard who was one of the lovers of his girlfriend Lesbia: Another word for urine, but less commonly used, was ""lōtium"". This word relates to ""lavāre"", ""to wash"". The Romans, innocent of soap, collected urine as a source of ammonia to"
"Luthier A luthier ( ) is someone who builds or repairs string instruments generally consisting of a neck and a sound box. The word ""luthier"" comes from the French word ""luth"", which means lute. A luthier was originally a maker of lutes, but the term now includes makers of stringed instruments such as the violin or guitar. A luthier does not make harps or pianos, as these require different skills and construction methods because their strings are secured to a frame. The craft of making string instruments, or lutherie (sometimes spelled luthiery), is commonly divided into two main categories: makers"
"seal to minimise odors. Campers refer to a cathole – a one-use, shallow scrape. Latrine A latrine is a toilet or an even simpler facility which is used as a toilet within a sanitation system. For example, it can be a communal trench in the earth in a camp to be used as emergency sanitation, a hole in the ground (pit latrine), or more advanced designs, including pour-flush systems. The term ""latrine"" is still commonly used in emergency sanitation situations. Nowadays, the word ""toilet"" is more commonly used than ""latrine"", except for simple systems like ""pit latrine"" or ""trench latrine""."
"Lustre (mineralogy) Lustre or luster is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral. The word traces its origins back to the Latin ""lux"", meaning ""light"", and generally implies radiance, gloss, or brilliance. A range of terms are used to describe lustre, such as ""earthy"", ""metallic"", ""greasy"", and ""silky"". Similarly, the term ""vitreous"" (derived from the Latin for glass, ""vitrum"") refers to a glassy lustre. A list of these terms is given below. Lustre varies over a wide continuum, and so there are no rigid boundaries between the different types of lustre. (For this reason,"
"halitosis""— a then obscure medical term for bad breath. Listerine's new ads featured forlorn young women and men, eager for marriage but turned off by their mate's rotten breath. ""Can I be happy with him in spite of ""that""?"" one maiden asked herself. Until that time, bad breath was not conventionally considered such a catastrophe, but Listerine changed that. As the advertising scholar James B. Twitchell writes, ""Listerine did not make mouthwash as much as it made halitosis."" In just seven years, the company's revenues rose from $115,000 to more than $8 million."" According to traditional Ayurvedic medicine, chewing areca"
"used for displaying images of the gods, that they might receive offerings at ceremonies such as the ""lectisternium"" or ""supplicatio"". In the famous ""lectisternium"" of 217 BC, on orders of the Sibylline books, six ""pulvinaria"" were arranged, each for a divine male-female pair. By extension, pulvinar can also mean the shrine or platform housing several of these couches and their images. At the Circus Maximus, the couches and images of the gods were placed on an elevated ""pulvinar"" to ""watch"" the games. The wife of the ""rex sacrorum"", who served as a high priestess with her own specific religious duties."
"Lutein Lutein (; from Latin ""luteus"" meaning ""yellow"") is a xanthophyll and one of 600 known naturally occurring carotenoids. Lutein is synthesized only by plants and like other xanthophylls is found in high quantities in green leafy vegetables such as spinach, kale and yellow carrots. In green plants, xanthophylls act to modulate light energy and serve as non-photochemical quenching agents to deal with triplet chlorophyll (an excited form of chlorophyll), which is overproduced at very high light levels, during photosynthesis. See xanthophyll cycle for this topic. Lutein is obtained by animals by ingesting plants. In the human retina, lutein is"
"Loratadine Loratadine, sold under the brand name Claritin among others, is a medication used to treat allergies. This includes allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and hives. It is also available in combination with pseudoephedrine, a decongestant, known as loratadine/pseudoephedrine. It is taken by mouth. Common side effects include sleepiness, dry mouth, and headache. Serious side effects are rare and include allergic reactions, seizures, and liver problems. Use during pregnancy appears to be safe but has not been well studied. It is not recommended in children less than two years old. It is in the second-generation antihistamine family of medication. Loratadine was"
"fix cracks; it was composed of resin, beeswax and either brick dust or ""bole earth"", or red ochre or venetian red. ""Soft cement"", made of yellow wax, turpentine and venetian red, was also used for repair. Lute (material) Lute (from Latin ""Lutum"", meaning mud, clay etc.) was a substance used to seal and affix apparatus employed in chemistry and alchemy, and to protect component vessels against heat damage by fire; it was also used to line furnaces. ""Lutation"" was thus the act of ""cementing vessels with lute"". In pottery, luting is a technique for joining pieces of unfired leather-hard clay"
"acted to set a tolerable upper intake level. The lutein market is segmented into pharmaceutical, dietary supplement, food, pet food, and animal and fish feed. In the dietary supplement industry the major market is for products with claims of helping maintain eye health. Newer applications are emerging in oral and topical products for skin health. Skin health via orally consumed supplements is one of the fastest growing areas of the US$2 billion carotenoid market. Lutein Lutein (; from Latin ""luteus"" meaning ""yellow"") is a xanthophyll and one of 600 known naturally occurring carotenoids. Lutein is synthesized only by plants and"
"refers to the mouth of an animal. Sable is named for a type of marten, known for its dark, luxuriant fur. Azure comes through the Arabic ""lāzaward"", from the Persian ""lāžavard"" both referring to the blue mineral lapis lazuli, used to produce blue pigments. Vert is from Latin ""viridis"", ""green"". The alternative name in French, ""sinople"", is derived from the ancient city of Sinope in Asia Minor, which was famous for its pigments. Purpure is from Latin ""purpura"", in turn from Greek ""porphyra"", the dye known as Tyrian purple. This expensive dye, known from antiquity, produced a much redder purple"
"Lant Lant is a word for aged urine, originating from the Old English word ""land"" referring to urine in general. Collected urine was put aside to ferment until used for its chemical content in many pre-industrial processes, such as cleaning and production of gunpowder. Because of its ammonium content, lant was most commonly used for floor cleaning and laundry. According to early housekeeping guides, bedpans would be collected by one of the younger male servants and put away to ferment to a mild caustic before use. It was also recommended to freshen the breath, to flavor ale (as in ""lanted"
"the same observations, and it was explained as an effect of good and deep hoeing as predicted by Jethro Tull. Lucerne is the name of the alfalfa, which arose in France, Germany and Britain in the 16th century from the Provençal luzerno (""glow worm""), due to its shiny seeds. In the 1750s M. de Chateauvieux had experimented extensively on producing lucerne in beds, cultivated according to new husbandry, over several years. Most of the 25-page article on lucerne in ""The Complete Farmer"" (1777) was devoted to the outcomes of these experiments. Although M. de Chateauvieux agreed with M. Duhamel and"
"of wild beasts, plural lustra ( ), a den of vice. Lustrum A lustrum (, plural lustra) was a term for a five-year period in Ancient Rome. The lustration was originally a sacrifice for expiation and purification offered by one of the censors in the name of the Roman people at the close of the taking of the census. The sacrifice was often in the form of an animal sacrifice, known as a suovetaurilia. These censuses were taken at five-year intervals, thus a lustrum came to refer to the five-year inter-census period. ' (from ', ) is a lustration or"
"Putrescine Putrescine, is a foul-smelling organic chemical compound NH(CH)NH (1,4-diaminobutane or butanediamine) that is related to cadaverine; both are produced by the breakdown of amino acids in living and dead organisms and both are toxic in large doses. The two compounds are largely responsible for the foul odor of putrefying flesh, but also contribute to the odor of such processes as bad breath and bacterial vaginosis. They are also found in semen and some microalgae, together with related molecules like spermine and spermidine. Putrescine and cadaverine were first described in 1885 by the Berlin physician Ludwig Brieger (1849–1919). In humans,"
"instrument, the lute produces a relatively quiet sound. The player of a lute is called a ""lutenist"", ""lutanist"" or ""lutist"", and a maker of lutes (or any similar string instrument, or violin family instruments) is referred to as a ""luthier"". The words ""lute"" and ""oud"" possibly derive from Arabic ""al-ʿoud"" (- literally means ""the wood""). It may refer to the wooden plectrum traditionally used for playing the oud, to the thin strips of wood used for the back, or to the wooden soundboard that distinguished it from similar instruments with skin-faced bodies. Henry George Farmer considers the similitude between """
"Lupinine Lupinine is a quinolizidine alkaloid present in the genus ""Lupinus"" (colloquially referred to as lupins) of the flowering plant family Fabaceae. The scientific literature contains many reports on the isolation and synthesis of this compound as well as a vast number of studies on its biological synthesis from its natural precursor, lysine. Studies have shown that lupinine hydrochloride is a mildly toxic acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and that lupinine has an inhibitory effect on acetylcholine receptors. The characteristically bitter taste of lupin beans, which come from the seeds of ""Lupinus"" plants, is attributable to the quinolizidine alkaloids which they contain, rendering"
"Rubrene Rubrene (5,6,11,12-tetraphenyltetracene) is a red colored polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. Rubrene is used as a sensitiser in chemoluminescence and as a yellow light source in lightsticks. As an organic semiconductor, the major application of rubrene is in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic field-effect transistors, which are the core elements of flexible displays. Single-crystal transistors can be prepared using crystalline rubrene, which is grown in a modified zone furnace on a temperature gradient. This technique, known as physical vapor transport, was introduced in 1998. Rubrene holds the distinction of being the organic semiconductor with the highest carrier mobility, reaching 40"
"form that is productive in Romance. The Classical Latin word ""micturīre"" became the accepted medical word meaning ""to urinate"". It is the source of the English medical term ""micturition reflex"". Martial's epigram 3.78 uses ""meiere"" and ""ūrīna"" to make a bilingual pun: The verbs ""meiere"" and ""mingere"" could also be used euphemistically of sexual intercourse. Horace (""Satires"" 1.2.44), speaking of the punishments meted out to adulterers, says: Catullus (67.23) speaks of a father who ""pissed in the lap of his own son"" (""ipse suī gnātī mīnxerit in gremium""), that is, had sex with his son's wife. The most usual word"
"probably giving the name of the craftsman in charge of the casting. These mean ""made by"" ... ""Peter"" ..."" of ? [place]"", with the ""luitinius"" location probably referring either one the four Lutins in modern Poland (not all possible candidates at this date), or Lille in northern France not far from the Mosan region, or Lucino near Como in northern Italy. If the reading is ""latinus"", or ""Peter the Latin made me"", the meaning is even less clear, but this is regarded as the less likely reading. Neither name is known in any other contexts. The left door (facing the"
"eliminated in the developed world. The term ""cretin"" was once used to describe a person affected by this condition, but, as with words such as ""spastic"", and ""lunatic"", it is now considered derogatory and inappropriate. ""Cretin"" became a medical term in the 18th century, from an Occitan and an Alpine French expression, prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common (see below); it saw wide medical use in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and was actually a ""tick box"" category on Victorian-era census forms in the UK. The term spread more widely in popular"