All articles starting with L

Leprechaun (film)

Leprechaun is a 1993 American horror-comedy directed by Mark Jones, starring Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston, made for under $1 million by Trimark Pictures and launching an eight-film horror franchise.

Leprechaun Vallis

Leprechaun Vallis, a 328 km vallis (medial groove) on Ariel, moon of Uranus, within Brownie Chasma; IAU-named 1988 for Irish leprechauns; interpreted as a spreading center.

Leprechaun: Origins

Leprechaun: Origins (2014) is a horror reboot of the Leprechaun franchise, directed by Zach Lipovsky, starring wrestler Dylan "Hornswoggle" Postl, produced by WWE Studios and Lionsgate, unrelated to prior films, and holding 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Oct 20, 2026

Lepreon

Lepreon (Λέπρεον, Lepreum) was an ancient polis in Triphylia, Elis, on Mount Minthi above modern Lepreo, Greece; a Minyan-foundation city, Elean dependent, with a Doric temple of Demeter and walls surviving to 4 m.

Leprosy

Leprosy (Hansen disease), chronic infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis, affecting skin and peripheral nerves; curable with multidrug therapy, ~174,000 new cases in 2022, mostly South-East Asia.

Leprosy reactions

Leprosy reactions are acute inflammatory episodes, driven by the immune response to the leprosy bacterium, that occur before, during, or after treatment and cause most leprosy-related nerve damage.

Leprous

Leprous is a Norwegian progressive rock/metal band from Notodden, formed in 2001 by Einar Solberg and Tor Oddmund Suhrke. Eight studio albums from Tall Poppy Syndrome (2009) to Melodies of Atonement (2024); former live backing band for Ihsahn.

Lepsius I Pyramid

The Lepsius I Pyramid, also called the Brick Pyramid, is a ruined mudbrick monument at Abu Rawash, Egypt, generally attributed to the Third Dynasty king Huni.

Lepsius L

Lepsius L is a pyramid structure at Dahshur, Egypt, recorded by the Prussian expedition of 1842–1845 and listed under Roman numeral L in Karl Richard Lepsius's catalog of pyramids.

Lepsius XXIV

Lepsius XXIV, also known as the Lepsius XXIV Pyramid, is a ruined pyramid at Abusir, Egypt, probably built for a queen of the 5th Dynasty under Nyuserre.

Leptaena

Leptaena is an extinct genus of strophomenide brachiopods, marine shellfish, that lived from the Middle Ordovician into the Early Devonian and is found worldwide, especially in Silurian rocks.

Lepti Minus

Lepti Minus (Leptiminus, Leptis Minor), ancient port city at Lamta, Tunisia, in Byzacena; Phoenician-founded free city, coins under Tiberius, probably a Trajanic colony; exported olive oil, garum, amphorae, and African Red Slip pottery.

Lepti Minus Roman amphitheater

Lepti Minus (Leptiminus, Leptis Minore) Roman amphitheater: the unexcavated amphitheater of the Roman port town at modern Lamta, Tunisia, in the Sahel, built during the region's 2nd-century prosperity, distinct from Leptis Magna's amphitheater in Libya.

Leptictidium

Leptictidium (Tobien, 1962) is an extinct European pseudorhyncocyonid leptictidan mammal of the Eocene, best known from complete Messel pit skeletons of L. nasutum, a small bipedal, long-tailed insectivore with a short proboscis.

Leptin

Leptin (from Greek leptos, thin) is a 160-kDa adipose-derived peptide hormone encoded by the ob gene, discovered in 1994 by Jeffrey Friedman's team; it signals fat stores to the brain via LepRb/JAK2/STAT3, and leptin resistance explains why metreleptin works in congenital leptin deficiency and lipodystrophy but not common obesity.

Leptis Magna (لبدة)

Leptis Magna (لبدة), also known as Lepcis Magna, is an ancient city on Libya's Mediterranean coast about 110 km east of Tripoli, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982.

Leptis Parva

Leptis Parva, also Leptis Minor or Leptiminus, was a Phoenician and Roman harbor town on the coast of Byzacium in the Tunisian Sahel, founded around 500 BC and occupied until about AD 700, now Lamta.

Leptobos

Leptobos (Rütimeyer, 1877), also Smertiobos, an extinct Eurasian bovine genus of the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene; narrow-skulled, spiral-horned, an index fossil of the Villafranchian and Chinese lower Pleistocene.

Leptobrachium

Leptobrachium (litter frogs, Eastern Spadefoot Toads; Chinese 拟髭蟾属) is a genus of 42 megophryid frog species from southern China, India, the Sunda Shelf, and the Philippines, formerly split as Vibrissaphora, with six species groups and high cryptic diversity.

Leptoceridae

Leptoceridae, the long-horned caddisflies (Trichoptera), a large cosmopolitan caddisfly family with very long antennae, about 1,800-1,970 species; four subfamilies after Malm & Johanson's 2011 molecular revision.

Leptochilus (plant)

Leptochilus (Java fern genus, incl. Colysis, Paraleptochilus) is an Old World Polypodiaceae fern genus of about 50 species in tropical-subtropical Asia and Pacific islands; monophyletic, six clades, type L. axillaris.

Leptochilus pteropus

Leptochilus pteropus, the Java fern (有翅星蕨), is an aquatic Polypodiaceae fern from the Himalayas to New Guinea, formerly Microsorum pteropus, with dark green simple leaves and worldwide aquarium cultivation.

Leptoconops

Leptoconops (black gnats) is a genus of diurnal, aggressively biting midges in Ceratopogonidae, subfamily Leptoconopinae, with seven subgenera; coastal and desert pests, rarely disease vectors, recently revised in Europe and India.

Leptodactylidae

Leptodactylidae, leptodactylid or Neotropical frogs, a family of 245 frog species in three subfamilies (Leiuperinae, Leptodactylinae, Paratelmatobiinae), native mainly to the Neotropics, known for foam nesting and 14 reproductive modes.

Oct 20, 2026

Leptodactylus

Leptodactylus (thin-toed or white-lipped frogs) is a Neotropical frog genus of family Leptodactylidae, erected by Fitzinger in 1826, with 85 species from southern North America to southern South America, all foam-nest builders.

Leptodactylus fallax

Leptodactylus fallax, the mountain chicken or crapaud, is a critically endangered large frog of Dominica and Montserrat, decimated by chytridiomycosis, hunting, and volcanic activity, now sustained by captive breeding and reintroduction.