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Lycopus
Lycopus (bugleweed, water-horehound), a Lamiaceae genus of wetland perennials native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and Australia; about 14–19 species; L. virginicus used traditionally as an antithyroid herb.
Lycopus europaeus
Lycopus europaeus, gypsywort or European bugleweed, is a perennial Lamiaceae wetland herb native from the Azores and NW. Africa to Siberia and the W. Himalaya, introduced in North America and New Zealand, IUCN Least Concern, rich in rosmarinic acid.
Lycoris (plant)
Lycoris is a genus of about 25 bulbous amaryllis-family plants native from Nepal to Japan, known for leafless flower stalks that emerge suddenly in late summer.
Lycoris radiata
Lycoris radiata (ヒガンバナ, higanbana; 石蒜), the red spider lily, is an Amaryllidaceae bulb native from Nepal to Japan, blooming red spider-like umbels in late summer; Japanese triploid strains are sterile, while fertile diploid var. pumila occurs in China.
Lycoris Recoil (リコリス・リコイル)
Lycoris Recoil (リコリス・リコイル) is a 2022 original 13-episode TV anime by A-1 Pictures, directed by Shingo Adachi, about Lycoris agents Chisato and Takina working at Café LycoReco; it spawned a stage play, manga, shorts, and an announced sequel.
Lycos
Lycos is a web search engine created in 1994 at Carnegie Mellon University that became a major 1990s portal, sold to Terra Networks in 2000 and Daum in 2004.
Lycosa tarantula
Lycosa tarantula, the true or original tarantula (Aranea tarantula, Linnaeus 1758), is a large burrowing Mediterranean wolf spider, type species of Lycosa, from France, Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia, redescribed with a Taranto neotype in 2026.
Lycurgus (Λυκοῦργος)
Lycurgus (Λυκοῦργος), semi-legendary lawgiver of Sparta, credited via Plutarch's Life and the Great Rhetra with Sparta's constitution, messes, and agoge; his dating and very existence are disputed.
Lycurgus Cup
The Lycurgus Cup is a fourth-century Roman glass cage cup, held by the British Museum, that appears jade-green in reflected light and ruby-red when light shines through it.
Lycus (river of Lydia)
The Lycus (Λύκος, Lykos) was a river of northern Lydia in western Asia Minor, a tributary of the Hermus that flowed south-west past Thyatira; its valley is identified with the Gördük Çayı.
Lycus (river of Phrygia)
The Lycus (Greek Lykos) is a river of ancient Phrygia and a principal tributary of the Maeander, now generally identified with the Çürüksu Çayı in Denizli province, Turkey.
Lycus Sulci
Lycus Sulci is a 1,350 km-wide region of ridges and hills, or furrowed terrain, north-northwest of Olympus Mons on Mars; IAU-named in 1976, known for dust avalanches and active slope streaks.
Lyddan Island
Lyddan Island (利丹島), an ice-covered Antarctic island about 45 mi long with three trefoil arms, at the SW end of the Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf, separating it from the Brunt Ice Shelf; discovered 1967, named for USGS engineer Robert H. Lyddan.
Lydden Hill Race Circuit
Lydden Hill Race Circuit is a one-mile mixed-surface motorsport venue near Canterbury, Kent, and the birthplace of rallycross, first held there on 4 February 1967 and won by Vic Elford in a Porsche 911.
Lydenburg Heads
The Lydenburg Heads are seven hollow terracotta sculptures of human and animal form found near Lydenburg, South Africa, dated to about 500 AD, the oldest known African Iron Age artworks from below the equator.
Lyder Borthen
Lyder Borthen, full name Lyder Must Borthen (1849–1924), was a Norwegian ophthalmologist in Trondheim whose leprosy eye research earned a 1900 Paris gold medal and three Nobel nominations.
Lydéric Bocquet
Lydéric Bocquet (born 1968) is a French physicist who studies nanofluidics, water and ion flow in nanometer channels, and holds a chair at the Collège de France.
Lydia
Lydia: ancient kingdom of western Anatolia (modern Turkey) on the Hermus/Gediz valley, capital Sardis; Mermnad kings Gyges, Alyattes, Croesus; credited with the first state coinage; conquered by Cyrus of Persia in 547/6 or 546 BC.
Lydia B Kollins
Lydia B Kollins (Lydia Butthole Kollins), American drag performer from Pittsburgh, born 2001; RuPaul's Drag Race Season 17 contestant (7th place) and All Stars 10 finalist (3rd/4th), known for horror-inspired drag, showmance with Kori King, and the book Lydia Lydia Lydia.
Lydia Cornell
Lydia Cornell (born Lydia Korniloff, 1953, in El Paso, Texas) is an American actress, writer, and producer best known as Sara Rush on ABC's Too Close for Comfort.
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis, born in 1947, is an American short-story writer and translator known for very short fiction and for translations of Proust's Swann's Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
Lydia E. Kavraki
Lydia E. Kavraki is a Greek computer scientist at Rice University known for the Probabilistic Roadmap Planner and the Open Motion Planning Library, widely used in robotics.
Lydia Edwards
Lydia Edwards is an American Democratic politician, attorney, and National Guard officer who has represented the Third Suffolk district in the Massachusetts Senate since 2022.
Lydia Fairchild
Lydia Fairchild, born in 1976, is an American woman whose 2002 DNA maternity tests repeatedly excluded her from her own children until tetragametic chimerism, two fused embryos, explained the results.
Lydia Finley
Lydia Finley is an American cancer biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies how metabolism controls cell fate in stem and cancer cells.
Lydia Freiberg
Lydia Freiberg, Soviet (URS) middle-distance runner, set a pre-ratification women's 1500 m world best of 5:02.0 in Moscow on 13 July 1936, breaking Anna Mushkina's 5:07.0; it stood 17 days before Yevdokiya Vasilyeva ran 4:47.2.
Lydia Hearst
Lydia Hearst (Lydia Marie Hearst-Shaw, born 1984) is an American model and actress, daughter of Patty Hearst, discovered by Steven Meisel for the April 2004 Vogue Italia cover, later a horror-film actress married to Chris Hardwick.
Lydia Hernandez
Lydia Hernandez is an American Democratic politician in the Arizona House of Representatives from District 24, previously representing District 29 and serving on the Cartwright School District board since 2003.
Lydia Hüskens
Lydia Hüskens, FDP politician born 1964 in Geldern, has been Saxony-Anhalt's Minister for Infrastructure and Digital Affairs and deputy minister-president since 2021, state FDP chair from 2021, and top candidate in the failed 2026 state election.
Lydia K. Griggsby
Lydia Kay Griggsby, born 1968 in Baltimore, is an American jurist appointed by President Biden in 2021 as a district judge for the District of Maryland, after serving on the Court of Federal Claims.