Lac

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A resinous secretion of lac insects, used in making shellac.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A Middle English form of lack.
  • noun. The sum of 100,000, usually of rupees.
  • noun. A resinous incrustation deposited on the twigs of various trees in India and southern Asia by the lac-insect, Carteria lacca.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Laccifer lacca (formerly Coccus lacca), a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.
  • noun. a resinous exudation of the tree Croton lacciferum, resembling lac.
  • noun. a scarlet dye obtained from stick-lac.
  • noun. the coloring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum.
  • noun. an exudation of the tree Croton Draco.
  • noun. One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One hundred thousand (commonly used in Pakistan and India).
  • noun. A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax
  • Word Usage
    "Now, an operon is a little segment of DN A in a bacteria which codes for a couple of genes, and genes code for proteins, and the proteins usually have related functions or function as a group, and one of them is called the lac operon which is used to, the proteins of which are necessary for the bacterium Escherichia coli to metabolize a sugar called lactose, which is a milk sugar."
    Equivalent
    lakh  
    Form
    shellac  
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adak  Black  Braque  Chirac  Jack  
    Same Context
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    bonheur  bord  despote  etat  fragili  
    variant
    lack