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Lightproof
- adjective - not penetrable by light; "lightproof containers"
Lights-Out
- noun - (military) signal to turn the lights out
- a prescribed bedtime
Lightships
- noun - a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable
Lightwoods
- noun - tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber
Lign-Aloes
- - Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum.
Lignifying
- verb - convert into wood or cause to become woody
Lignocaine
- unknown - drug used as local anaesthetic
Lignoceric
- - Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the formic acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech.
Lignotuber
- - A woody swelling on a tree or shrub, usually contained entirely below or just above the surface of the ground, and having buds which enable the plant to survive cutting or a fire that destroys the portion of the plant above ground. After such damage to the plant, sprouting commences from the lignotuber.