(government) The lower legislative house in a bicameral legislature; in many cases, the one that is directly elected and/or has more practical power, such as the power to raise and spend money.

(government) The lower legislative chamber in a bicameral legislature; in many cases, the one that is directly elected and/or has more practical power, such as the power to raise and spend money.

plural of lowering

plural of lower house

plural of lower chamber

(countable, nautical) The deck of a ship immediately above the hold / (uncountable, nautical, by extension) Those members of a ship's company who are not officers.

(genetics) Abbreviation of locally weighted robust scatterplot smoothing.

Printed or written in lowercase letters.

(colloquial) A series of people or things considered as representing progressively lower levels of a series or whole.

(botany) That part of a leaf and petiole that grows from a basal meristem.