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Lagonosticta senegala
Lagonosticta senegala, the red-billed or Senegal firefinch, is a small estrildid finch of sub-Saharan savannas and villages, with six subspecies, a stable Least Concern population, and the village indigobird as brood parasite.
Lagoon
Lagoon: a shallow body of water separated from the sea or ocean by a barrier; two types, atoll lagoons inside coral rings and coastal lagoons behind sand barriers, with salinity from fresh to hypersaline.
Lagoon (amusement park)
Lagoon is a family-owned amusement park in Farmington, Utah, opened in 1886 as Lake Park on the Great Salt Lake and relocated to Farmington in 1896; known for the 1921 wooden Roller Coaster and the 2015 Cannibal coaster.
Lagoon Creek power station
Lagoon Creek power station is a natural gas power plant in Haywood County, Tennessee, near Brownsville, owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority and generating 1,444 megawatts, TVA's largest gas-fueled facility.
Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems
Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems (Lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie), a serial French UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 2008: six marine clusters, 1,574,300 ha, 146 reef structure types, third-largest dugong population.
Lagophthalmos
Lagophthalmos is incomplete eyelid closure, mainly from facial nerve paralysis (Bell's palsy), scarring, or sleep (nocturnal lagophthalmos), causing exposure keratopathy treated with lubricants, taping, tarsorrhaphy, or lid weights.
Lagopus
Lagopus (ptarmigan) is a genus of three cold-adapted grouse species known for white winter plumage and snowshoe feet. They are distributed across Holarctic regions and western North America.
Lagori
Lagori (ಲಗೋರಿ) is an Indian folk-rock and fusion band formed in Bangalore in 2011, known for Hindi and Kannada songs set to classical melodies over rock.
Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria, is a coastal megacity built around islands beside the Lagos Lagoon. It is the country's largest city and was its capital until 1991.
Lagos Botanical Gardens
Lagos Botanical Gardens is a loose label covering several sites in Lagos, Nigeria. The most prominent is the 60-hectare Murtala Muhammed Memorial Botanic Garden, founded in 1991.
Lagos Colony
Lagos Colony, British crown colony on Lagos Island from the 1861 Treaty of Cession to its 1906 merger with Southern Nigeria; founded to suppress the slave trade, it became 'The Liverpool of West Africa' and the base of British rule in Nigeria.
Lagos Poopó y Uru Uru
Lagos Poopó y Uru Uru, Bolivian Ramsar site BO1181RIS designated 11 July 2002, protects two brackish Altiplano lakes in Oruro department covering 967,607 ha, home to some 120,000 flamingos; Lake Poopó has since largely dried.
Lagos State
Lagos State, capital Ikeja, is Nigeria's smallest state (3,577 km²) and economic center: 20 LGAs, about 22 million people, 15–30% of national GDP, former federal capital until 1991.
Lagos University Teaching Hospital
Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos: Nigeria's federal teaching hospital for the University of Lagos, established 1961-1962, with 46 clinical departments, nine training schools, and the NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre.
Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is a 700-kilometer federally funded expressway under construction in Nigeria from Lagos to Calabar, begun in March 2024 under President Bola Tinubu.
Lagos–Ibadan Expressway
The Lagos–Ibadan Expressway is a 127.6-kilometer federal expressway linking Lagos and Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria, opened in 1978 as Nigeria's first expressway and its busiest interstate route.
Lagos, Portugal
Lagos (Lacobriga, Zawaia) is a city and municipality in the western Algarve, Faro District, Portugal: 40,729 residents in 2025, a Discoveries-era port, seat of the Algarve bishopric from 1572, rebuilt after the 1755 earthquake, now tourism-driven.
Lagostomus
Lagostomus, the plains viscacha (Lagostomus maximus, vizcacha), a large colonial South American rodent of Chinchillidae from Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina; burrow colonies called viscacheras, IUCN Least Concern, hunted for fur and treated as an agricultural pest.
Lagostrophus
Lagostrophus, the banded hare-wallaby genus (munning), holds one living species, L. fasciatus, sole member of subfamily Lagostrophinae, sister to all other macropodids, surviving only on Bernier and Dorre Islands, Shark Bay, Western Australia.
Lagotellerie Island
Lagotellerie Island, Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula; ASPA 115 (formerly SPA 19), 1.58 km2 island protected for its Antarctic flowering plants, Adélie penguin and Imperial Shag colonies, and rich invertebrate fauna.
Lagothrix
Lagothrix, the woolly monkeys (also spelled Lagotrix), is a Neotropical atelid primate genus from Humboldt, 1812, named for hare-like fur; two species per Fooden 1963, frugivorous Amazonian seed dispersers, IUCN Vulnerable.
Lagotto Romagnolo
Lagotto Romagnolo, Italian water dog and truffle dog from Romagna; curly-coated, 43-48 cm, recognized by ENCI 1991, FCI 2005, AKC 2015; only breed officially selected for truffle searching.
LaGrand case
LaGrand (Germany v. United States of America), ICJ case 104, concerned two German nationals executed in Arizona without Vienna Convention Article 36 consular notification; the 2001 judgment first held ICJ provisional measures binding and ordered review and reconsideration.
Lagrange (lunar crater)
Lagrange is a 162-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's southwestern near side at 32.6°S, 71.5°W, near the limb, named for mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange and IAU-approved in 1935.
Lagrange (spacecraft)
Lagrange, since renamed Vigil, is an ESA space weather spacecraft that will orbit the fifth Sun-Earth Lagrange point to give days of warning of dangerous solar events.
Lagrange invariant
The Lagrange invariant, also called the optical invariant, is a quantity in paraxial geometrical optics that keeps the same value at every surface of an optical system.
Lagrange multiplier
A Lagrange multiplier, also called a Lagrangian multiplier, is a scalar introduced for each constraint to find a function's constrained extrema, named after Joseph-Louis Lagrange, who used the idea in his 1788 Méchanique analitique.
Lagrange multipliers
Lagrange multipliers are auxiliary variables used to find the extrema of a function subject to equality constraints, introduced by Joseph-Louis Lagrange in the late 18th century.
Lagrange point
A Lagrange point is one of five positions where a small object can hold a fixed position relative to two large orbiting bodies, such as the Sun and Earth.
Lagrange points
Lagrange points are five positions near two orbiting bodies, such as the Sun and Earth, where a small object can hold a fixed position; spacecraft use them as parking spots.