All articles starting with L

Lathyrus

Lathyrus (sweet pea, vetchling, grass pea) is a genus of about 160-183 climbing legume species in Fabaceae, tribe Fabeae, centered on the Mediterranean; grass pea L. sativus contains the neurotoxin β-ODAP causing lathyrism.

Lathyrus sativus

Lathyrus sativus, grass pea or chickling pea, a Balkan-domesticated annual legume grown for food and fodder; tolerant of drought and flooding but its neurotoxin beta-ODAP causes lathyrism when eaten as a dietary staple.

Latiaxis

Latiaxis Swainson, 1840 is a genus of marine coralliophiline murex snails (Muricidae), type species L. mawae; molecular work shows it is not monophyletic, and many former species now sit in Babelomurex and related genera.

Laticauda

Laticauda, the sea kraits, is a genus of eight venomous, amphibious, oviparous elapid snakes of the Indo-Pacific that forage on eels at sea and return to land to rest, mate, and lay eggs, separate from true sea snakes.

Latidens

Latidens is a monotypic genus of Old World fruit bats (Pteropodidae, Cynopterinae) holding only Latidens salimalii, Salim Ali's fruit bat, an Endangered bat endemic to the southern Western Ghats of India, distinct from unrelated species named latidens.

Latif Yahia (لطيف يحيى)

Latif Yahia (لطيف يحيى), Iraqi-born author and former officer, claims he was Uday Hussein's body double 1987-1991; his memoirs inspired the 2011 film The Devil's Double, but former insiders dispute the story.

Latif-ur Rehman

Latif-ur Rehman (1929–1987), Indian-born field hockey left winger from Bhopal; won 1948 Olympic gold for India, then silver for Pakistan at the 1956 Olympics and 1958 Asian Games gold.

Sep 19, 2026

Latifa

Latifa (لطيفة), full name Latifa Bint Alaya El Arfaoui, is a Tunisian Arab pop singer born in 1961 who built her career in Egypt and won the 2004 World Music Award.

Latifa al-Droubi (لطيفة الدروبي)

Latifa al-Droubi (لطيفة الدروبي) is the First Lady of Syria, wife of President Ahmad al-Sharaa and mother of his three children; first publicly seen in February 2025 and active in women's and educational diplomacy.

Latifa al-Zayyat

Latifa al-Zayyat (لطيفة الزيات) was an Egyptian novelist, critic, and political activist, best known for her 1960 novel The Open Door and her leadership of the 1946 student movement.

Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum (born 1985)

Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum (born 1985), Emirati princess, daughter of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum; failed 2018 yacht escape, later shown with Mary Robinson; distinct from the Dubai Culture chairperson.

Latifa Echakhch

Latifa Echakhch, born in Morocco in 1974 and raised in France, is a sculptor and installation artist in Switzerland who won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.

Latife Tekin

Latife Tekin (born 1957) is a Turkish novelist and screenwriter known for blending magical realism, poverty, and migration in novels such as Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (1983).

Latiff Mohidin

Latiff Mohidin (full name Abdul Latiff bin Haji Mohidin, born 1941) is a Malaysian modernist painter, sculptor, and poet best known for the Pago Pago series.

Sep 23, 2026

Latifi

Latifi (لطیفی), real name Abdullatif, was a sixteenth-century Ottoman poet and biographer of poets from Kastamonu, remembered for his 1546 tezkire of poets and Evsaf-i Istanbul.

Latilactobacillus curvatus

Latilactobacillus curvatus, formerly Lactobacillus curvatus, is a lactic acid bacterium used as a starter and bioprotective culture in fermented meats and studied as a candidate probiotic.

Latilactobacillus sakei

Latilactobacillus sakei (formerly Lactobacillus sakei) is a psychrotrophic lactic acid bacterium of meat and fish, a sakacin P-producing fermented-sausage starter culture, bioprotective agent, and candidate probiotic.

Latimeria

Latimeria, the modern coelacanth, is a genus of lobe-finned fish containing the only two living coelacanth species, one caught off South Africa in 1938 after the group was thought extinct.

Oct 20, 2026

Latimeria chalumnae

Latimeria chalumnae, the West Indian Ocean or African coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish rediscovered alive off South Africa in 1938; Critically Endangered, CITES Appendix I, ovoviviparous, genome sequenced 2013.

Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet (Roman alphabet): alphabetic script derived via the Etruscans from a western Greek alphabet, written left to right with 26 basic letter pairs; the world's most widely used script, extended with diacritics, digraphs, and new letters for thousands of languages.

Latin America

Latin America: Romance-language (Spanish, Portuguese) region of the Western Hemisphere, 20 core countries, ~666.6 million people (2025); contested 1856 coinage, high inequality (Gini 49.1), 'second lost decade' 2015–2024.

Latin America–United States relations

Latin America–United States relations: political, economic, and security ties shaped by the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary interventions, OAS framework, deep trade and FDI links, and the Trump administration's 2025–2026 hemispheric security agenda.