lesser whitethroat
whitethroat Sylvia curruca | Old World warbler similar to the greater whitethroat but smaller |
lesser prairie chicken
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus | a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas |
| coucal | Old World ground-living cuckoo having a long dagger-like hind claw |
pheasant coucal
pheasant cuckoo
Centropus phasianinus | Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant |
lesser scaup
lesser scaup duck
lake duck
Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
lesser yellowlegs
Tringa flavipes | a variety of yellowlegs |
lesser rorqual
piked whale
minke whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata | small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific |
lesser kudu
Tragelaphus imberbis | a smaller variety of kudu |
tamandua
tamandu
lesser anteater
Tamandua tetradactyla | small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and fourlawed forelimbs, of tropical South America and Central America |
| lesser ape | gibbons and siamangs |
lesser panda
red panda
panda bear cat
cat bear
Ailurus fulgens | reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore, in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas |
bursa omentalis
omental bursa
lesser peritoneal cavity | an isolated part of the peritoneal cavity that is dorsal to the stomach |
| lesser omentum | a part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and liver and supporting the hepatic vessels |
rhomboid minor muscle
lesser rhomboid muscle
musculus rhomboideus minor | rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the vertebral column and slightly upward |
Lesser Antilles
Caribees | a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies |
Lesser Sunda Islands
Nusa Tenggara | a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java, includes Bali and Timor |
lesser celandine
pilewort
Ranunculus ficaria | perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups, its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles |
lesser spearwort
Ranunculus flammula | semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears, naturalized in New Zealand |
hop clover shamrock lesser yellow trefoil
Trifolium dubium | clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers, often considered the true or original shamrock |
common duckweed
lesser duckweed
Lemna minor | of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia |
common burdock
lesser burdock
Arctium minus | a plant that is ubiquitous in all but very acid soil, found in most of Europe and North Africa |
lesser knapweed
black knapweed
hardheads
Centaurea nigra | a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers, native to Europe but widely naturalized |
lesser twayblade
Listera cordata | orchid having two triangular leaves and a short lax raceme of green to rustolored flowers with the lip flushed mauve, Europe and Asia and North America and Greenland |
lesser butterfly orchid
Platanthera bifolia
Habenaria bifolia | south European orchid having fragrant greenish-white flowers, sometimes placed in genus Habenaria |
lesser bullrush
narrow-leaf cattail
narrow-leaved reedmace
soft flag
Typha angustifolia | reed maces of America, Europe, North Africa, Asia |
lesser wintergreen
Pyrola minor | the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers, Europe and North America |
lesser centaury
Centaurium minus | common European glabrous annual centaury with flowers in dense cymes |
lesser galangal
Alpinia officinarum
Alpinia officinalis | Chinese perennial with pyramidal racemes of white flowers and pungent aromatic roots used medicinally and as flavoring |
lesser calamint
field balm Calamintha nepeta
Calamintha nepeta glantulosa
Satureja nepeta
Satureja calamintha glandulosa | low-growing strongly aromatic perennial herb of southern Europe to Great Britain, naturalized in United States |
fool's parsley
lesser hemlock
Aethusa cynapium | European weed naturalized in America that resembles parsley but causes nausea and poisoning when eaten |
| lesser | smaller in size or amount or value, the lesser powers of Europe, the lesser anteater |
| lesser | of less size or importance, the lesser anteater, the lesser of two evils |
less
to a lesser extent | used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, less interesting, less expensive, less quickly |