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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Lamentations
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- proper noun Abbreviation of
Lamentations .
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In Lam., iii, each successive letter of the alphabet begins three lines, so that the chapter consists of sixty-six lines in which each letter of the alphabet occurs three times as the initial of the line.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Quercus volutina, Lam., the black oak, is a large tree 2 to 3 feet in diameter and 50 to 80 feet in height, found in nearly every county in North Carolina, but infrequent in the southeastern counties and around the higher mountains.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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[58] The _Erythrina_ (_indica_, Lam.; _carnea_, Bl.); see Blanco's
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