Noun
tracking the bear back to its lair
She runs the project from her private lair in the suburbs.
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But the team hypothesizes the fungus lures the spiders out of their lairs where they are exposed to circulating air currents, which helps spread its spores, said Araújo, who is also an honorary research associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the United Kingdom.—Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025 The story sounds like something right out of a horror movie: this fungus hacks the brain of its host, driving the normally shy spiders out of their lairs and webs to an exposed surface.—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 2 Feb. 2025 What if the bar took the form of a gothic medieval lair meets rock-and-roll club?—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2025 The supervillain is defeated by Superman and Batman in his lair.—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lair
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English leger; akin to Old High German legar bed, Old English licgan to lie — more at lie
Verb
Scots lair mire
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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