First recorded in 1400–50; Middle English lacca, from Dutch lak or French lac, laque, from Old French lacce, lache, from Medieval Latin lac, lacca, from Arabic lakk, from Persian lak, from Hindi lākh, from Prakrit lākkhā, from Sanskrit lākṣā
From Latin
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The 80-seat cafe serves Vietnamese classics such as fish sauce wings and luc lac shaking beef along with fusion dishes, such as the fried chicken with pandan waffles.
From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024
CAP binds to the operator sequence upstream of the promoter that initiates transcription of the lac operon.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Glucose must not be present, and lactose must be available for the lac operon to be transcribed.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The lac operon is an example of inducible control because the presence of lactose “turns on” transcription of the genes for its own metabolism.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Ghee more than ten years old, the purāna ghrita of Sanskrit materia medicas, has a strong odour and the colour of lac.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
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