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(Wilfredo) (1902-1982) Cuban painter. Influenced by Surrealism in the 1930s (he lived in Paris 1937–41), he created a semiabstract style using mysterious and sometimes menacing images and symbols, mainly taken from Caribbean traditions. His Jungle series, for example, contains voodoo elements. He visited Haiti and Martinique in the 1940s, Paris 1952, and also made frequent trips to Italy.

Množina: lams

(Slang) Used in the expression: on the run; running from the law.
(Homonym: lamb).

1. To beat soundly; thrash
2. Strike, thrash
3. To flee hastily; scram

To hit violently, as in an attack; SYN. tear into, lace into, pitch into, lay into.

Množina: lamas

ETYM Thibet. blama (pronounced läma) a chief, a high priest.
A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
Tibetan monk or priest.
Llamas; Also called: genus Lama.

Množina: Lamaisms

1. Tibetan Buddhism having great variety in its ritual practices and a complex hierarchical organization.
2. Tibetan Buddhist doctrine including non-Buddhist Indian elements and elements of preexisting shamanism.
Religion of Tibet and Mongolia, a form of Mahayana Buddhism. Buddhism was introduced into Tibet in AD 640, but the real founder of Lamaism was the Indian missionary Padma Sambhava, who began his activity about 750. The head of the church is the Dalai Lama, who is considered an incarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. On the death of the Dalai Lama, great care is taken in finding the infant in whom he has been reincarnated.
In the 15th century Tsongkhapa founded the sect of Geluk-Pa (virtuous), which has remained the most powerful organization in the country. The Dalai Lama, residing at the palace of Potala in Lhasa, exercised both spiritual and temporal authority as head of the Tibetan state until 1959, aided by the Panchen Lama.
Before Chinese communist rule, it was estimated that one in four of Tibet's male population was a Lamaist monk, but now their numbers are greatly reduced. Prayer wheels and prayer flags, on which were inscribed prayers, were formerly a common sight in the Tibetan countryside; when these were turned by hand or moved by the wind, great spiritual benefit was supposed to accrue.

Množina: Lamaists

An adherent of Lamaism (Tibetan Buddhism).

(1825-1893) US jurist and public official. He was a member of the US Senate 1877–85 and served as President Cleveland's secretary of the interior 1885–87. He sat on the US Supreme Court 1888–93.
Born in Elbert County, Georgia, and educated at Emory College, Lamar was admitted to the bar 1847. After teaching at the University of Mississippi, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, serving 1857–60. During the American Civil War 1861–65 he served briefly in the Confederate army and was named Confederate envoy to Russia. After the war Lamar returned to the University of Mississippi and sat in the US House of Representatives 1873–77.

Množina: Lamars

1. City in Arkansas (USA); zip code 72846.
2. City in Colorado (USA); zip code 81052.
3. City in Missouri (USA).
4. Town in Oklahoma (USA); zip code 74850.
5. Town in South Carolina (USA); zip code 29069.
6. Village in Nebraska (USA); zip code 69035.

Množina: Lamar Heights

Village in Missouri (USA).

(1744-1829) French naturalist whose theory of evolution, known as Lamarckism, was based on the idea that acquired characteristics (changes acquired in an individual’s lifetime) are inherited by the offspring, and that organisms have an intrinsic urge to evolve into better-adapted forms. Philosophie zoologique/Zoological Philosophy 1809 outlined his “transformist” (evolutionary) ideas.
Zoological Philosophy tried to show that various parts of the body developed because they were necessary, or disappeared because of disuse when variations in the environment caused a change in habit. If these body changes were inherited over many generations, new species would eventually be produced.
Lamarck was the first to distinguish vertebrate from invertebrate animals by the presence of a bony spinal column. He was also the first to establish the crustaceans, arachnids, and annelids among the invertebrates. It was Lamarck who coined the word “biology”.
Lamarck was born in Bazentin, Picardy. He studied medicine, meteorology, and botany, and traveled across Europe as botanist to King Louis XVI from 1781. In 1793 he was made professor of zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris.
So little was known about invertebrates at this time that some scientists grouped snakes and crocodiles with insects. Lamarck studied both living and fossil invertebrates, and described them in his book Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres/Natural History of Invertebrate Animals 1815–22.

Množina: Lamarck's theories

Of or relating to Lamarckism.

Množina: Lamarckisms

A theory of organic evolution claiming that acquired characteristics are transmitted to offspring.
Theory of evolution, now discredited, advocated during the early 19th century by French naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck.
Lamarckism is the theory that acquired characteristics were inherited. It differs from the Darwinian theory of evolution.
According to Lamarck, organisms have an urge to “improve” rather than being shaped by natural selection acting on random variations. Later, Lamarckism just came to mean a belief in the inheritance of acquired characteristics–a now discarded opinion shared by most biologists before the discovery of genetics.

Množina: Lamarkisms