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Lemeshev
Lemeshev (Лемешев курган), two Scythian kurgans near Bolshaya Znamenka, Ukraine, excavated by Veselovsky in 1911; the Great Lemeshev mound, 8.5 m high with 9 m catacombs, ranks among the lower Dnipro elite burial mounds.
Lemi Ponifasio
Lemi Ponifasio, Samoan-born New Zealand choreographer, director, and designer, founded the company MAU in Auckland in 1995; known for ceremonial works like Tempest: Without a Body, Stones in Her Mouth, and Jerusalem.
Lemierre's syndrome
Lemierre's syndrome, also called postanginal sepsis or necrobacillosis, is septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein with septic emboli after oropharyngeal infection, usually Fusobacterium necrophorum, in adolescents and young adults.
Lemkechen Dorsa
Lemkechen Dorsa is a 2,000 km ridge belt (dorsum) on Venus at 18.5°N, 68.5°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for a Berber pole star goddess.
Lemken
Lemken is a German family-owned manufacturer of agricultural machinery for soil cultivation, seeding, and crop protection, founded in 1780 and headquartered in Alpen with sites worldwide.
Lemkin Institute
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security is a Philadelphia-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit issuing Red Flag and Active Genocide Alerts; unrelated to Raphael Lemkin's family, founded from 2017 Iraq Project work.
Lemko-Rusyn Republic
The Lemko-Rusyn Republic was a short-lived Lemko self-governing polity centered on Florynka in present-day Poland, existing from late 1918 until Polish forces suppressed it in 1920.
Lemmatization
Lemmatization is the natural language processing task of grouping a word's inflected forms under a single base form, so "builds", "building", and "built" all reduce to "build".
Lemmenjoki National Park
Lemmenjoki National Park (Lemmenjoen kansallispuisto), Finland's largest national park at 2,858 km², established 1956 in Lapland; roadless wilderness with the Lemmenjoki River, Sámi heritage, and gold-panning history.
Lemming
Lemming: small Arctic tundra rodent (Lemmus, Dicrostonyx), famous for 3–5 year population cycles and the false mass-suicide myth staged by Disney's 1958 White Wilderness; breeds under snow, declines driven by predation and warming.
Lemmings (series)
Lemmings is a puzzle video game series where players assign skills like digging and building to guide green-haired crowds to safety, starting with DMA Design's 1991 Amiga game.
Lemmings (video game)
Lemmings, DMA Design puzzle game published by Psygnosis in 1991 for the Amiga; players assign eight limited skills to autonomous green-haired creatures to rescue a required share of the population, sold about 15 million copies across 20+ ports.
Lemminkäinen Vallis
Lemminkäinen Vallis, a 726-km valley system (vallis) near Pluto's north pole, IAU-approved May 27, 2022, named for the Kalevala hero who journeyed to the Underworld; sibling to Väinämöinen Vallis.
Lemmus
Lemmus, the true lemmings, is a genus of Arctic arvicoline rodents (Cricetidae) including the Norway lemming Lemmus lemmus and brown lemming L. trimucronatus, tundra herbivores famous for 3- to 5-year population cycles driven partly by predation.
Lemmy
Lemmy (Ian Fraser Kilmister, 1945-2015): English bassist and singer, Motörhead's founder and only constant member; ex-Hawkwind; Motörhead helped create speed and thrash metal.
Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay, born 1967 in Wigan to an Ethiopian mother, is a British poet, playwright, memoirist, and broadcaster. Known for My Name Is Why, landmark poems, the 2012 Olympics poet role, and Manchester chancellorship.
Lemna
Lemna (duckweed) is a cosmopolitan genus of about 13 species of tiny free-floating aquatic plants in Araceae, reduced to fronds with one root each, used in wastewater phytoremediation, animal feed, and plant research.
Lemna gibba
Lemna gibba (gibbous duckweed, swollen duckweed), Araceae, a free-floating duckweed with swollen fronds 1-8 mm, native from Europe to Central Asia, Africa, and America; used in OECD 221 toxicity tests, wastewater phytoremediation, and aquaculture feed.
Lemna minor
Lemna minor (common duckweed, lesser duckweed) is a tiny free-floating Araceae aquatic plant of temperate waters worldwide, used for phytoremediation, animal feed, medicine, and OECD toxicity testing; IUCN Least Concern.
Lemna protein
Lemna protein, or Lemna leaf protein (LLP), is protein from the duckweed Lemna minor; Plantible Foods' GRN 1256 received an FDA no-questions letter in 2026, with EU novel food authorization and egg-white-like functional properties.
LemnaTec Scanalyzer 3D
The LemnaTec Scanalyzer 3D is a conveyor-based automated plant phenotyping platform by LemnaTec GmbH of Aachen, Germany, now marketed as the Conveyor Scanalyzer, that carries potted plants through imaging, weighing, and watering stations.
Lemniscate
The lemniscate of Bernoulli is a figure-eight plane curve, defined by a constant product of distances from two fixed points, published by Jacob Bernoulli in 1694.
Lemniscomys
Lemniscomys, striped grass mice or zebra mice, is a genus of 11 recognized murid rodent species across sub-Saharan Africa (one species, L. barbarus, north of the Sahara), classified by stripe pattern into three morphogroups that genetics shows evolved in parallel.
Lemnoideae
Lemnoideae (duckweeds, formerly Lemnaceae): five genera, 36–37 species of tiny free-floating aquatic flowering plants in Araceae; fastest-growing angiosperms, Wolffia doubling in under 24 hours, protein-rich and used as food and wastewater treatment.
Lemnos
Lemnos (Limnos, Λήμνος) is a Greek volcanic island in the northeastern Aegean between Mount Athos and Lesvos, home to the Early Bronze Age town of Poliochni, the Etruscan-related Lemnian language stele, and Muscat wine.
Lemon
Lemon (Citrus × limon), a citron-sour orange hybrid citrus fruit from the Himalayan foothills; major varieties Eureka, Lisbon, Femminello, Verna, Meyer; top producers India, Argentina, Spain, Iran, US.
Lemon (automobile)
A lemon, or lemon car, is a vehicle with a substantial defect the manufacturer cannot fix after reasonable repair attempts; state lemon laws can force repurchase.
Lemon (music)
"Lemon" is a 2018 song by Japanese singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu, written as the theme of the TBS drama Unnatural and ranked Billboard Japan's all-time number one.
Lemon & Paeroa
Lemon & Paeroa (L&P) is a New Zealand lemon soft drink created in 1907 from Paeroa mineral spring water and lemon, later made by Grey & Menzies, Innes Tartan, and now Coca-Cola in Auckland, famed for its giant Paeroa bottle statue.
Lemon balm
Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis, sweet balm, toronjil) is a lemon-scented Lamiaceae perennial herb native from the Mediterranean to Central Asia, grown as a culinary and medicinal herb; rich in rosmarinic acid and citronellal, studied for anxiety and sleep.