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LIV´ER, n. See GLAND.

LO´BATE, LOBED, a. Furnished with membranous flaps (said chiefly of toes). See LOMATINUS. (137.)

LOBE, n. Membranous flap (generally curved, but may be straight-edged). See LOMA.

LO´MA, n. Lobe; membranous fringe or flap. (135.)

LOMAT´INUS, a. Furnished with lobes or flaps. (134.)

LONG-EXSERT´ED, a. Said of tail-feathers abruptly much longer than the rest.

LONGIPEN´NES, n. pl. A group of long-winged swimming-birds, the gulls, terns, and petrels.

LONGIPEN´NINE, a. Having long wings (reaching, when folded, beyond the tail).

LONGIROS´TRAL, a. Having a long bill (longer than the head).

LONGIROS´TRES, n. pl. An obsolete group of long-billed wading birds.

LONGIS´SIMUS, a. for n. A certain muscle of the back.

LONGITU´DINAL, a. Running lengthwise, or in direction of the antero-posterior axis of the body.

LON´GUS COL´LI. A certain muscle of the neck.

LO´RAL, a. Pertaining to the lore.

LORE, LO´RUM, n. Space between eye and bill. (39.)

LOWER BACK. (59.) See TERGUM.

LOWER JAW. LOWER MANDIBLE. (11.) See MANDIBLE.

LOWER PARTS. (6.) See GASTRÆUM.

LOWER WING-COVERTS. (85.) See TECTRICES.

LOWER TAIL-COVERTS. See CALYPTERIA, CRISSUM, TECTRICES.

LUM´BAR, a. Pertaining to, or situate in, the loins. In birds, a lumbar region or lumbar vertebræ are not well distinguished, if at all; and in many, rib-bearing vertebræ continue into the sacral region.

LUMBRIC´IFORM, a. Same as VERMIFORM (which see).

LU´NULATE, a. Narrowly crescentic.

LU´TEOUS, a. Clay-colored.

LYMPHAT´IC, a. or n. Pertaining to lymph; an absorbent vessel.

LY´RATE, a. Lyre-shaped, as the tail of Menura superba or Tetrao tetrix.

MAC´ERATED, a. Soaked to softness.

MAC´ULA, n. A spot.