lek

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a place where males of certain animal species gather to perform courtship displays and compete for mates

   At dawn, male grouse returned to the lek and began their ritual displays.

2. 2
   verb

   to gather or display in a lek as part of courtship

   The birds lek on the same patch of open ground each spring.

3. 3
   noun

   the basic monetary unit of Albania

   The museum ticket cost five hundred lek.

The biological term is from Swedish lek, "play, courtship," related to leka, "to play." The unrelated Albanian currency name comes from Lek, an Albanian short form of Alexander, in reference to Alexander the Great as depicted on early coins.

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