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Limonia acidissima
Limonia acidissima, the wood apple tree, is a spiny citrus-family tree native to the Indian subcontinent and Andaman Islands, grown for its hard-shelled aromatic fruit.
Limoniidae
Limoniidae, the short-palped crane flies, are a large Diptera family in Tipuloidea with four subfamilies and about 10,800 species; molecular studies show it is paraphyletic, and some classifications merge it into Tipulidae.
Limonium
Limonium (sea lavender, statice) is a Plumbaginaceae genus of about 600-650 salt-tolerant species, Mediterranean-centered recretohalophytes with salt glands, including cut-flower statice L. sinuatum and many threatened endemics.
Limonov: The Ballad
Limonov: The Ballad (Лимонов. Баллада) is Kirill Serebrennikov's 2024 English-language biographical drama, adapted from Emmanuel Carrère's novel, starring Ben Whishaw as Eduard Limonov; it competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2024.
Limony
Limony is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France, the most northerly in the department, on the right bank of the Rhône with about 780 inhabitants.
Limosa
Limosa (godwits) is a genus of four large migratory shorebirds in Scolopacidae: Bar-tailed, Black-tailed, Marbled, and Hudsonian Godwits, known for extreme nonstop migrations and mixed, mostly declining population trends.
Limosilactobacillus fermentum
Limosilactobacillus fermentum (formerly Lactobacillus fermentum, Beijerinck 1901) is a gram-positive lactic acid bacterium, type species of Limosilactobacillus since the 2020 reclassification, found in sourdough, kefir, and dairy, with probiotic strains such as CECT5716.
Limosilactobacillus fermentum CECT5716
Limosilactobacillus fermentum CECT5716 (Hereditum LC40, formerly Lactobacillus fermentum CECT5716) is a human-milk-derived probiotic strain studied for preventing infant gastrointestinal infections and lactational mastitis, with FDA GRAS notice GRN 531.
Limosilactobacillus reuteri
Limosilactobacillus reuteri (formerly Lactobacillus reuteri) is a probiotic lactic acid bacterium of human and animal guts and breast milk, renamed in 2020, that produces the antimicrobial reuterin; strain DSM 17938 is studied for infant colic and diarrhea.
Limosilactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938
Limosilactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 (formerly Lactobacillus reuteri), a breast-milk-derived probiotic daughter strain of ATCC 55730 producing reuterin; GRAS for foods and infant formula; best evidence in breastfed infants with colic.
Limousin Region
Limousin: former administrative region of central France (Corrèze, Creuse, Haute-Vienne), capital Limoges, 16,942 km², 742,771 inhabitants (2010); merged into Nouvelle-Aquitaine on 1 January 2016.
Limousine
A limousine is a luxury chauffeur-driven car with an enclosed passenger compartment separated from the driver, formally defined in 1916 and best known today in the stretched form.
Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit is an American nu-metal band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1994 by Fred Durst and Sam Rivers. Known for Significant Other and Chocolate Starfish, the rap-metal band lost bassist Sam Rivers in 2025 and still tours.
Limpet
Limpet: marine gastropod with a conical cap-like shell, not a single clade; true limpets (Patellogastropoda, ~350 species) graze algae on rocky shores, bioerode rock, and have teeth of goethite nanofibres reaching 6.5 GPa, the strongest biological material recorded.
Limpet mine
A limpet mine is an explosive naval mine attached directly to a ship's hull by a diver, usually with magnets, and detonated on a time delay.
Limpopo
Limpopo, formerly the Northern Province, is South Africa's northernmost province, bordering Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. Its capital is Polokwane, and its economy rests on mining, agriculture, and tourism.
Limpopo (site)
Limpopo (Лимпопо) names Russian and CIS family entertainment venues: the Yekaterinburg aquapark chain opened 2005 (16,400 m2, 17 slides), Orenburg water park 2017, Nizhny Novgorod private zoo founded 2003, and Crimean indoor activity parks.
Limpopo Children's Play Center
Limpopo Children's Play Center (Дитячий ігровий центр «Лімпопо») is an indoor play center for ages 3-10 in the Adrenalin City complex, Lutsk, Ukraine, with labyrinth, trampolines, arcades, and birthday parties; distinct from same-named centers in Minsk and Tuapse.
Limpopo River
Limpopo River, transboundary river of southern Africa (basin 412,938 km²) shared by Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, draining to the Indian Ocean; irrigation-dominated water use, LIMCOM governance, recurring floods and droughts.
Limroy
Limroy was a hedge fund that mathematician Jim Simons launched in 1978 alongside Monemetrics in Setauket, New York, trading currencies and commodities until 1988, when Simons shut it down and launched the Medallion fund.
LiMS trial
LiMS (LIght Monitor Study, NCT03050034) was an Italian pilot randomized trial of wearable wireless vital-sign monitoring (WIN@Hospital) versus nurse monitoring in critically ill Internal Medicine patients; no significant outcome differences, large nursing-time savings.
Limulus amebocyte lysate
Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), also called the Limulus test, is a horseshoe crab blood-cell extract used to detect bacterial endotoxins in drugs, vaccines, and devices via the Factor C clotting cascade; recombinant factor C is replacing it.
LimX Dynamics (逐际动力)
LimX Dynamics (逐际动力) is a Shenzhen robotics startup founded in 2022 by Will Zhang that develops humanoid robots like Oli and Luna, reaching a $2.2 billion valuation in 2026.
Limyra
Limyra (Lycian Zemure) is an ancient city in Lycia in southwestern Anatolia, about 5 km northeast of Finike, Turkey, best known as the royal seat of the 4th-century BC dynast Pericles.
Limyra bilingual inscription
The Limyra bilingual inscription is a Greek–Aramaic funerary bilingual carved on a rock-cut tomb at Limyra in Lycia, commemorating Artimas son of Arzapiya, with the Greek added generations later.
Lin Bai
Lin Bai (林白, born 1958) is a Chinese novelist known for A War of One's Own and as a leading figure of 1990s personal and women's writing.
Lin Biao (林彪)
Lin Biao (林彪) was a Marshal of the People's Republic of China. He was designated Mao Zedong's successor in 1969, but died in a plane crash in Mongolia in 1971.
Lin Biao Incident
The Lin Biao Incident (林彪事件), also called the September 13 Incident, was the September 1971 flight of Mao Zedong's designated successor Lin Biao from China and his plane's crash in Mongolia.
Lin Bin
Lin Bin (林斌), born in 1968, is a Chinese-born American engineer who co-founded Xiaomi with Lei Jun in 2010, serving as president until 2019 and later vice chairman.
Lin Boqu
Lin Boqu (林伯渠), born in Hunan in 1886, was a Chinese revolutionary who served the Tongmenghui, Kuomintang, and Communist Party, becoming a senior PRC leader.