CROWFOOT FAMILY, set of dycotyledonous plants. Ok. 2000 kinds (50 stems), primarily in moderate and cool belts of Boreal hemisphere. The aconite, a crowfoot, a larkspur, an adonis, a weather shake, a drainage basin concern to a crowfoot family, etc. Many crowfoot family are toxicant.

LJUTICHI (velety), the union of nations polabskih slavs of 8-12 centuries on austral a shore of Baltic m.

LUTE (polsk. lutnia, the protosource: the arab. al-ud - a tree), 1) string shchipkovyj a musical instrument of a middle East origin (see. Ud), widespread for miscellaneous peoples Vost. And JUzh. Europe (kobza, etc.), Africa and Asia. In Zap. To Europe has appeared in a serotinal Middle Ages. 2) Non-proprietary name of group of the string instruments having as mandatory reverberatory a body and strunonositel.

BACKLASH (a nem. Luft, characters. - air), a spacing between mated surfaces of parts of machines. The device for definition of value of a backlash in a steering mechanism of the automobile calls as a dial test indicator.

LUFFA, stem of annual grasses of a set of a gourd family. 5-8 kinds, in tropics and subtropics. A luffa cylindrical or ljuchalnuju a pumpkin, and a luffa granistuju cultivate in warm countries (occasionally on Caucasus, in Crimea and Compare. Asia). Pullet ovaries are edible, ripe fruits give t. n. A vegetative sponge (goes on basts). Seeds contain oil, fit for the technical purposes.

LUCERNE (Luzern), city in Switzerland, on lake Firvaldshtetskom, an administrative centre of the canton Lucerne. 61 thousand inhabitants (1985, with suburbs of 161 thousand inhabitants). A machine industry, sewing, polygraphic, a food-processing industry. Annual musical festivals, the Health resort. Art and historical museums, treasury Hofkirhe. It is based ok. 1180. Urban strengthening with towers (nach. 15 century), Renaissance church Hofkirhe (17 century) and a town hall (nach. 17 century), houses in style of Baroque (17-18 centuries).

LUCERNE, stem one and perennial grasses of a set of pod-bearing plants. Ok. 100 kinds, in Eurasia and Africa. Cultivate in the pure state and in a mix with cereals lucerne blue, lucerne yellow, lucerne hybrid, etc. - a fodder grasses (for 2 hay cutting 60-90 ts hay with 1 ga).

LJUTSERNOVAJA COLUMBINE BORERS (flax bollworm), the butterfly of a set of columbine borers; the pest of lucerne, a flux, a soya bean in Eurasia. Front fenders zelenovato-grey with dark cross stripes. Eats (caterpillars) leaves and seeds.

LJUTSERNOVYJ the WEEVIL (major), the bug of a set of weevils; the pest of lucerne, a clover, a sainfoin in Eurasia. Black, dl. 9-14 mm. Eats leaves, larvas - roots.

LJUTSIN, the official title of. Ludza in Latvia up to 1917.

The LUCIFER, in Christian mythology the fallen angel, a devil.

The LUCIFER, see. Phosphorum.

LUCIFERINS (from an armour. lucifer - svetonosnyj), the organic compounds participating in a bioluminescence. On a chemical nature - heterogeneous ring compounds, terpenoidy, etc.

LJUCHZHOU, city in the south of China, Guansi-CHzhuansky independent area. A railway junction. 609 thousand inhabitants (1990). The timber industry centre. Metallurgical, machine-building, a chemical industry.

LJUCHIANI (Luchani) (Luciani) Luigi (1840-1919), the italian physiologist. The main transactionses on physiology of heart, respiration, nervimuscular system, influence on an organism of the long-lived hunger. Has put forward the theory about an auxiliary role of a cerebellum in a regulation of functions of an organism major hemispheres.

LJUES, the same, that a lues.

LJA, one of the musical notes, VI stage of the main diatonicheskogo zvukorjada. An alphabetic designation - latin And.

LJAANEMAA (Vick), drevneestonsky maakond (ground) in northwest of the modern Estonia, with cities Haapsalu, Lihula, Soontaga. In 13 century it is seized by german crusaders (Ezel-Vikskoe bishopric), with 1561 in Poland, with 1629 in Sweden, part Lifljandii. In Russian empire with 1710 - Gapsalsky for. Estljandskoj lips. And Pernovsky for. Lifljandskoj lips. (Pjarnumaa).