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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LAMBERT PINE

Lam "bert pine `. Etym: [So called from Lambert, an English botanist. ](Bot. )

 

Defn: The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana ). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

lambert

lam bert |ˈlambərt ˈlæmbərt | noun a former unit of luminance, equal to the emission or reflection of one lumen per square centimeter. ORIGIN early 20th cent.: named after Johann H. Lambert (1728 –77 ), German physicist.

 

Lambert, Constant

Lambert, Constant |ˈlambət | (1905 –51 ), English composer, conductor, and critic; full name Leonard Constant Lambert. He wrote the music for the ballet Romeo and Juliet (1926 ) and the jazz work The Rio Grande (1929 ), later becoming musical director of Sadler's Wells (1930 –47 ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

lambert

lambert |ˈlambət | noun a former unit of luminance, equal to the emission or reflection of one lumen per square centimetre. ORIGIN early 20th cent.: named after Johann H. Lambert (1728 –77 ), German physicist.

 

Lambert, Constant

Lambert, Constant |ˈlambət | (1905 –51 ), English composer, conductor, and critic; full name Leonard Constant Lambert. He wrote the music for the ballet Romeo and Juliet (1926 ) and the jazz work The Rio Grande (1929 ), later becoming musical director of Sadler's Wells (1930 –47 ).

 

Duden Dictionary

Lambert

Lam bert Eigenname Lambrecht ; Lamprecht |L a mbert |männlicher Vorname

 

Lamberta

Lam ber ta Eigenname |Lamb e rta |weiblicher Vorname

 

Lambertsnuss

Lam berts nuss Substantiv, feminin , die |L a mbertsnuss | zu lombardisch Nuss einer Haselnussart