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Lycée Louis-le-Grand

Lycée Louis-le-Grand, formerly Collège de Clermont, is a Paris public lycée and CPGE founded in 1563 on rue Saint-Jacques, with 900 pupils and 900 preparatory students, topping French public lycée rankings.

Lyceum

Lyceum (Greek Lykeion, Λύκειον): the Athenian gymnasium where Aristotle founded his Peripatetic school in 335 BCE, and the name of European secondary schools such as the French lycée.

Lychee

Lychee (Litchi chinensis, 荔枝, litchi) is the sole species of its genus in the soapberry family, a tropical tree native to southern China with over 2,000 years of cultivation; Asia grows over 95% of the roughly 2-million-tonne world crop, led by China and India.

Lychee cultivars

Lychee cultivars are named, clonally propagated varieties of the lychee tree of southern China, led by Feizixiao, Nuomici, and Guiwei in China and by Mauritius and Brewster in Florida, South Africa, and Australia.

Lychee fruit and green tea polyphenol extract (Oligonol)

Oligonol, also called oligomerized lychee polyphenol, is a low-molecular-weight polyphenol extract from lychee fruit and green tea made by Amino Up Chemical of Japan; oligomerization raises monomer and oligomer content, improving bioavailability, with FDA NDI (2007) and GRAS (2014) status.

Lycia

Lycia: ancient mountainous region of southwest Anatolia (Turkey), the Hittite Lukka Lands, home of the Lycian language and the 23-city Lycian League; capital Xanthos, UNESCO-listed with Letoon.

Lycia (band)

Lycia is an American darkwave and ethereal wave band formed in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona by Mike VanPortfleet. Key albums include Ionia, The Burning Circle and Then Dust, and Cold on Projekt Records; Peter Steele was a noted fan.

Lycia et Pamphylia (Turkey)

Lycia et Pamphylia, a Roman province in southwest Anatolia (modern Turkey), united Lycia, Pamphylia, and most of Pisidia; first joined under Claudius in 43 CE, definitively organized by Vespasian in 74, divided again in late antiquity.

Lycia Therapeutics

Lycia Therapeutics is a privately held biotechnology company in South San Francisco, founded in 2019 with Stanford chemist Carolyn Bertozzi to develop LYTAC protein degraders.

Lycian inscriptions

The Lycian inscriptions are a corpus of about 200 texts in Lycian, an Anatolian language of ancient Lycia in southwest Turkey, written mostly during the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

Lycian sarcophagus of Sidon

The Lycian sarcophagus of Sidon is a Parian marble tomb chest of the late 5th century BC, unearthed at Sidon in 1887 and named for its house-shaped Lycian lid.

Lycians

The Lycians were the Luwic-speaking inhabitants of Lycia, the mountainous southern shore of southwestern Anatolia, whose Iron Age kingdom fell under Persian rule around 540 BC.

Oct 22, 2026

Lycidas

Lycidas is a pastoral elegy by John Milton, written in 1637 for a memorial volume for Edward King, a Cambridge fellow drowned in the Irish Sea.

Lycium

Lycium (goji, wolfberry) is a Solanaceae genus of 75–101 spiny shrub species with red, black, or yellow berries, cosmopolitan in arid regions, including the medicinal L. barbarum and salt-tolerant L. ruthenicum.

Lycodon

Lycodon (wolf snakes) is a diverse Asian colubrid snake genus ranging from Iran to Japan and the Philippines; the banded genus Dinodon was synonymized into it after molecular phylogenies showed nesting, with about 66 species by 2020.

Lycoming Engines

Lycoming Engines, also known as Textron Lycoming, is an American manufacturer of piston aircraft engines based in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, whose engines power more than half of the world's general aviation fleet.

Lycoming O-360

The Lycoming O-360 is a carbureted, four-cylinder, air-cooled, horizontally opposed piston aircraft engine made by Lycoming Engines of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, rated at about 180 horsepower.

Lycoming O-540

The Lycoming O-540 is a family of six-cylinder, air-cooled, horizontally opposed piston aircraft engines produced by Lycoming Engines of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, first certified in 1957 and powering many general aviation aircraft.

Lycopene

Lycopene (psi,psi-carotene) is a red, non-provitamin A carotenoid pigment from tomatoes, watermelon, and pink grapefruit; cis isomers and heat processing improve its bioavailability, and trials support modest blood-pressure lowering at 5-30 mg/day.

Lycopene cyclase

Lycopene cyclase is an enzyme that folds the open ends of lycopene into closed rings, converting it into cyclic carotenes such as beta-carotene and alpha-carotene.

Lycoperdaceae

Lycoperdaceae, the true puffball family (Agaricales), includes Lycoperdon, Bovista, Calvatia, and Disciseda; angiocarpic fruit bodies, about 430 species, taxonomic status debated versus Agaricaceae.

Oct 22, 2026

Lycophron

Lycophron of Chalcis was a Greek tragic poet of the Alexandrian Pleiad who worked at the Library of Alexandria and is credited with the cryptic poem Alexandra.

Lycopodiaceae systematics and classification

Lycopodiaceae, the clubmoss and firmoss family, is an ancient family of vascular plants with about 400 species worldwide, now divided into three subfamilies and 17 genera.

Lycopodiales

Lycopodiales (clubmosses) is an order of homosporous vascular plants containing the single family Lycopodiaceae, with about 400 species on all continents except Antarctica, three subfamilies, a fossil record over 400 million years old, and spores historically used in flash photography.

Lycopodiella

Lycopodiella, the bog clubmosses, is a genus of terrestrial clubmosses named in 1964 by the Czech botanist Jiří Holub, with about 41 species most diverse in South America.

Lycopodiopsida

Lycopodiopsida (clubmosses, lycophytes) is a class of seedless vascular plants, sister to all other extant vascular plants, with three families: Lycopodiaceae, Isoëtaceae, and Selaginellaceae, descended from Devonian-Carboniferous dominants.

Lycopodium

Lycopodium (clubmoss) is a Linnaean 1753 genus of spore-bearing vascular plants in Lycopodiaceae, cosmopolitan, with 59 accepted species, hydrophobic flammable spores used in pyrotechnics and pharmacognosy, and 508 reported secondary metabolites.

Oct 20, 2026

Lycopodium clavatum

Lycopodium clavatum, stag's-horn or running clubmoss, is a widespread clubmoss of the temperate Northern Hemisphere and tropical mountains, slow-growing from spores, secure globally (G5) but seriously threatened in California (CNPS 4.1), used in traditional medicine and sporopollenin drug delivery research.

Lycopodium powder

Lycopodium powder, also called clubmoss spores or lycopodium spores (Lycopodium clavatum), is a yellow-tan flammable spore powder used in pyrotechnics, early flash photography, and as a reference dust in explosion testing; St 1 class, lower explosion limit 15 g/m³.