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lupin (iou) and audiotape (oh)


lupin (iou)



lupin noun. Also lupine. LME.
[Latin lupinus, lupinum.]
Any of various leguminous plants of the genus Lupinus, with palmate leaves and showy flowers in long terminal racemes; a flowering stem of such a plant. In early use, esp. the Mediterranean Lupinus albus, cultivated for its seed and for fodder; now usu., any of the ornamental kinds, with flowers in many colours, mainly Derivatives and hybrids of the N. American L. polyphyllus and L. arboreus. LME.
Nootka lupin: see NOOTKA adjective 1. RUSSELL LUPIN. tree lupin: see TREE noun.
In pl. The seeds of this plant. LME.

audiotape (oh)



a long thin band of magnetic material used to record sound