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Lyophilization
Lyophilization, or freeze-drying, is a drying method that freezes a material and removes its water by sublimation under vacuum, producing a stable dry solid used to improve drug stability in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Lyophyllaceae
Lyophyllaceae is a family of Agaricales mushrooms (Basidiomycota, suborder Tricholomatineae) established by Julich in 1982, typified by Lyophyllum, marked by siderophilous basidial granules, and spanning saprotrophic, parasitic, termite-symbiotic, and ectomycorrhizal species.
Lyophyllum decastes
Lyophyllum decastes, the fried chicken mushroom or Clustered Domecap, is a clustered, grey-capped edible agaric in Lyophyllaceae, saprophytic on buried wood, center of a taxonomically difficult species complex with L. shimeji, L. fumosum, and L. loricatum.
Lyor Cohen
Lyor Cohen, born 1959, is an American music executive: Def Jam president from 1988, Island Def Jam chief, Warner Music U.S. chairman 2004-2012, 300 Entertainment co-founder, and Global Head of Music at YouTube and Google since 2016.
Lyot (lunar crater)
Lyot is an impact crater on the Moon's near side, near the southeastern limb in the southern hemisphere, with a rim-to-rim diameter of 150.60 km and center at −50.47°, 84.80°.
Lyot (Martian crater)
Lyot crater, a ~220 km peak-ring impact basin at 50.5°N, 29.3°E in Mars' northern lowlands, is one of the planet's youngest large basins, with Amazonian fluvial channels, ice-rich deposits, and distant secondary craters.
Lyoto Machida
Lyoto Carvalho Machida, "The Dragon" (born 1978), Japanese Brazilian MMA fighter, former UFC light heavyweight champion, Shotokan-based counter-striker; UFC 24-8, pro 26-12, last fight Bellator May 2022.
Lyotropic liquid crystal
A lyotropic liquid crystal is a liquid crystalline phase formed when amphiphilic molecules such as surfactants or lipids self-assemble in a solvent, usually water, into ordered structures.
Lypressin
Lypressin, also known as lysine vasopressin or [Lys8]-vasopressin, is a cyclic nonapeptide hormone, the natural antidiuretic hormone of pigs, used as an antidiuretic and vasoconstrictor.
Lyra
Lyra is a small northern constellation representing the lyre, dominated by Vega, the fifth-brightest star in the night sky, best seen from June through October.
Lyra Belacqua
Lyra Belacqua, also called Lyra Silvertongue, is the orphan heroine of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, daughter of Mrs. Coulter and Lord Asriel, daemon Pantalaimon, later adult protagonist of The Book of Dust.
Lyra Health
Lyra Health is a Burlingame, California company founded in 2015 by former Facebook CFO David Ebersman that sells employer-funded mental health care as an employee benefit.
Lyra McKee
Lyra McKee (1990-2019), Belfast freelance investigative journalist and LGBTQ campaigner, shot dead by a New IRA gunman while observing a riot in Derry's Creggan on 18 April 2019; three men acquitted of her murder in 2026.
Lyra Therapeutics, Inc.
Lyra Therapeutics, Inc., formerly WMR Biomedical, was a clinical-stage biotech company in Watertown, Massachusetts, whose bioresorbable nasal implants delivered six months of mometasone furoate for chronic rhinosinusitis.
Lyra Valkyria
Lyra Valkyria (Aoife Marie Cusack, born 1996, Dublin) is an Irish WWE wrestler, former NXT UK's Aoife Valkyrie, first-ever WWE Women's Intercontinental Champion, NXT Women's Champion, and Women's Tag Team Champion with Becky Lynch.
Lyrcea Planum
Lyrcea Planum is a 424.95-km-wide plain (planum) on Jupiter's moon Io, centered at 41.92S, 268.83W, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the Greek plain where the mythological Io was born.
Lyre
Lyre: ancient and traditional stringed chordophone with two arms and a crossbar (yoke), strings running from tailpiece to yoke over the soundbox; distinct from harp and zither, known since 3000 BC Mesopotamia.
Lyrebird
Lyrebird (Menura, family Menuridae): two Australian ground songbirds, the superb lyrebird and Albert's lyrebird, famed for male lyre-shaped tails, ~80% mimetic song, and winter mound-display courtship.
Lyres of Ur
The Lyres of Ur are wooden lyres and harps buried with elite dead in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, southern Iraq, around 2600 BC, excavated by Leonard Woolley.
Lyria
Lyria is a family of AI music generation models developed by Google DeepMind, first announced in November 2023 with YouTube and powering Dream Track and MusicFX DJ.
Lyric poetry
Lyric poetry, from Greek lyrikos (lyre-accompanied song), is short personal verse expressing a speaker's feelings, contrasted with epic and drama; originating in 7th-century BCE Greece with Sappho and Pindar, and now covering odes, elegies, and sonnets.
Lyrica Anderson
Lyrica Anderson, also Lyrica Nasha Anderson, is a Los Angeles-born R&B singer-songwriter who co-wrote Charice's "Pyramid" and Beyoncé's "Jealous," released Hello (2015), and starred on Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood.
Lyrical Ballads
Lyrical Ballads, the 1798 anonymous Bristol poetry collection by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched English Romanticism with 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere' and 'Tintern Abbey' and Wordsworth's 1800 Preface.
Lyricist
A lyricist is a writer who creates the lyrics sung in a piece of music, often focusing on emotion or story, and may also be described as a songwriter.
Lyrics
Lyrics are the words of a song, written to be sung within a melody. From Greek lyre-accompanied poetry to Chinese tz'u, broadside ballads, prosody rules, copyright, streaming display, and AI generation.
Lyrics of Lowly Life
Lyrics of Lowly Life is an 1896 poetry collection by Paul Laurence Dunbar, drawing mostly on his earlier books Oak and Ivy and Majors and Minors.
Lyriq Bent
Lyriq Bent, Jamaican-born Canadian actor (also Martin Lyriq Bent), known for Daniel Rigg in Saw II-IV, Frank Best in Rookie Blue, and award-winning lead in The Book of Negroes.
Lyrurus
Lyrurus (Swainson, 1832) is a grouse genus in Phasianidae with two species, the black grouse Lyrurus tetrix and the Caucasian black grouse L. mlokosiewiczi, known for lekking males and declining European populations.
Lysander (Λύσανδρος)
Lysander (Λύσανδρος), Spartan commander (d. 395 BCE), won Aegospotami 405, ended the Peloponnesian War, installed decarchies under harmosts, backed Agesilaus, and died at Haliartus.
Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner (1808–1887), American lawyer, abolitionist, and individualist anarchist; author of The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, Trial by Jury, and No Treason, which denied the Constitution's authority.