Lys
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Lys, the French word for lily, could be any of the following:
- "Lys":Danish and Norwegian for light
- Geographical
- The Lys or Leie is a river originating in France, entering Belgium and flowing into the river Scheldt in Ghent. Its total length is 202 km.
- Lys is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in France.
- Lys was the name of a département during the First French Empire, nowadays the West Flanders province of Belgium.
- Biochemistry
- Lys is an abbreviation for the amino acid lysine.
- Fiction
- Lys is the name of a city in Arthur C. Clarke's book The City and the Stars.
- Lys is also the name of a city in George R. R. Martin's epic series A Song of Ice and Fire.
- Heraldry
- The Fleur-de-lis is a stylized representation of a "lys" (actually an Iris) used in heraldry and coats of arms.