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London

The capital city of England.

(Science: medicine) london paste, a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; used as a caustic to destroy tumours and other morbid enlargements. London pride.

(Science: botany) a cruciferous plant (Sisymbrium Irio) which sprung up in london abundantly on the ruins of the great fire of 1667.