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Lemon basil
Lemon basil (Ocimum × africanum, syn. O. × citriodorum; kemangi, hoary or Lao basil) is a citral-scented hybrid herb of O. americanum and O. basilicum, native to tropical Asia, used in Thai and Lao cuisine.
Lemon battery
A lemon battery is a simple electrochemical cell made from a zinc nail and a copper strip inserted into a lemon, used to demonstrate how batteries work.
Lemon Demon
Lemon Demon is the musical project of Neil Cicierega, founded 2003 in Massachusetts after his Trapezoid and Deporitaz aliases. Known for The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and the acclaimed 2016 synthpop album Spirit Phone, reissued by Needlejuice Records.
Lemon essential oil
Lemon essential oil (Citrus limon peel oil, CAS 8008-56-8), a d-limonene-rich fragrance, flavoring, and feed additive oil; not EU-approved as a plant protection basic substance under Regulation (EU) 2023/200.
Lemon law
Lemon laws are U.S. state statutes requiring manufacturers to repurchase or replace vehicles with unrepairable substantial defects. Built on the 1975 Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, all 50 states have them, with varying repair-attempt thresholds, windows, and arbitration rules.
Lemon Party
Lemon Party (lemonparty.org) is a 2002-registered shock site showing three elderly men, set to Jimmy Soul's "If You Wanna Be Happy"; a bait-and-switch trolling meme, one of the "Unholy Trinity" with Goatse and Tubgirl.
Lemon pig
Lemon pig: a lemon turned into a pig figure with toothpick legs, clove eyes, foil tail, and a coin. A Victorian children's craft, not a real New Year tradition; the luck claim dates to Alcoa's 1971 party book and went viral via Twitter in 2017.
Lemon Pound Cake
Lemon Pound Cake is Afroman's 2022 comedy rap album (14 tracks, Music Access/Hungry Hustler) about the 2022 Adams County, Ohio raid on his home; its title track went viral and survived a $4 million defamation suit the deputies lost.
Lemon shark
Lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris), a large yellow-brown requiem shark of shallow Atlantic and eastern Pacific coastal waters with two equal dorsal fins; IUCN Vulnerable, mangrove nursery grounds, studied at Bimini, Bahamas.
Lemon Tree (Fool's Garden song)
"Lemon Tree" (Fool's Garden song), credited to Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel, released late 1995 on Dish of the Day; number one in Germany for four weeks in 1996, six million copies sold, over 729 million Spotify streams.
Lemon v. Kurtzman
Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971), a U.S. Supreme Court case striking down Pennsylvania and Rhode Island aid to religious schools, announced the three-prong Lemon test for Establishment Clause cases, overruled in Kennedy v. Bremerton (2022).
Lemonade
Lemonade is a drink of lemon juice, sugar, and water (or, in Britain, a carbonated lemon soda). Records go to 10th-12th century Egypt (qatarmizat), Paris limonadiers 1676, US temperance era, and pink circus lemonade.
Lemonade (Aespa album)
LEMONADE is the second studio album by K-pop girl group aespa, released May 29, 2026 by SM Entertainment after Armageddon. EDM-led title track with G-DRAGON, Ty Dolla $ign, and Becky G features; eighth aespa million-seller, Billboard 200 No. 9.
Lemonade (Aespa song)
Lemonade is a 2026 song by aespa, title track of their second studio album LEMONADE on SM Entertainment, an intense EDM club-beat single with a Becky G feature version, reviewed as talk-heavy with thin melodies.
Lemonade (album)
Lemonade, Beyoncé's sixth studio album, surprise-released April 23, 2016 on Tidal with an HBO visual film; twelve tracks in chapters from Intuition to Redemption, about infidelity and Black womanhood.
Lemonade Mouth (film)
Lemonade Mouth is a 2011 Disney Channel Original Movie directed by Patricia Riggen, based on Mark Peter Hughes's novel, about five students who form a band in detention; its soundtrack hit No. 4 on the Billboard 200.
Lemonade Stand (podcast)
Lemonade Stand is a weekly business, tech, and politics podcast by streamers Doug Wreden (DougDoug), Brandon Ewing (Atrioc), and Aiden McCaig, launched March 2025 and distributed by the Vox Media Podcast Network from October 2025; distinct from unrelated lemonade-themed shows.
Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket, also known as Lemony Snicket of A Series of Unfortunate Events, is Daniel Handler's pen name and fictional narrator persona, author of the 13-volume Baudelaire orphan saga (1999–2006) plus All the Wrong Questions and The Dark.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is Brad Silberling's 2004 gothic comedy film adapting the first three Snicket (Daniel Handler) novels, starring Jim Carrey as Count Olaf, with Jude Law voicing the narrator; it grossed $211.5 million worldwide and was later followed by Netflix's 2017 series.
LeMoyne–Owen College
LeMoyne–Owen College is a private, historically black liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee. It was formed in 1968 by merging LeMoyne College and Owen Junior College.
Lempel–Ziv compression
Lempel–Ziv compression is a family of lossless data compression algorithms that replace repeated substrings with references to earlier occurrences, introduced by Ziv and Lempel in 1977.
Lempel–Ziv–Welch
Lempel–Ziv–Welch, or LZW, is a lossless dictionary-based data compression algorithm published by Terry Welch in 1984 and used in GIF, TIFF, PDF, and Unix compress.
Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland
Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland (1892–1969) was an American zoologist and protozoologist, a Harvard professor and National Academy of Sciences member, who proved that termite gut protozoa digest the cellulose their hosts eat.
Lemur
Lemurs: strepsirrhine primates endemic to Madagascar, over 100 species from mouse lemurs to sifakas; 98% threatened with extinction; includes ring-tailed lemur, extinct giant lemurs, and SOS Lemurs conservation.
Lemuria
Lemuria, also linked to Kumari Kandam, is a hypothetical Indian Ocean continent proposed by Sclater in 1864 to explain lemur distribution, later adopted by Theosophy and Tamil tradition, and abandoned after plate tectonics.
Lemuridae
Lemuridae, the true lemurs, is a family of five Madagascar-endemic primate genera (Lemur, Eulemur, Hapalemur, Prolemur, Varecia) with toothcombs, 36 teeth, female dominance, and 21–24 species, many threatened.
Lemuriformes
Lemuriformes, the lemurs, are Madagascar's endemic strepsirrhine primates: about 103 extant species in five families, split from lorisiformes up to 65 Mya, with tooth combs, female dominance, and 87% of species threatened.
Lemzoparlimab
Lemzoparlimab (TJC4, TJ011133) is a fully human IgG4 anti-CD47 monoclonal antibody from I-Mab Biopharma that binds a distinct glycosylation-shielded epitope to spare red blood cells; development was halted outside China in 2022 and its phase III MDS trial discontinued in 2025.
Len (band)
Len is a Canadian pop-hip-hop band formed in Toronto in 1991 by siblings Marc and Sharon Costanzo, known for the 1999 top-ten hit "Steal My Sunshine" from the album You Can't Stop the Bum Rush; distinct from the UK rapper Len and a Japanese group of the same name.
Len (rapper)
Len is a British rapper from Stockwell, South London, active in the UK underground since SoundCloud releases in 2017; known for DEAD END (2022), the CONGLOMERATE tape with Fimiguerrero and Lancey Foux (2024), and the genre-blending album Goldenboy. Distinct from the Canadian pop group Len.