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Labia [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Labium.

Labia [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Labium

Labial [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to the lips; formed by the lips; as a labial articulation. Thus b, p, and m are labial articulations.

Labial [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A letter or character representing an articulation of the lips; as b, f, m, p, v.

Labial [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.

2. Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.

3. Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w.

4. Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as / (f/d), / (/ld), etc., and as eu and u in French, and o, u in German. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 11, 178.

5. Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial palpi of insects. See Labium.

Labial [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.

2. An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue pipe.

3. One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile.

Labialism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being labial; as, the labialism of an articulation; conversion into a labial, as of a sound which is different in another language.

Labialization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening.

Labialize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

Labially [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a labial manner; with, or by means of, the lips.

Labiate [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

LA'BIATE ,

Labiate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, a labiate corol is irregular, monopetalous, with two lips, or monopetalous, consisting of a narrow tube with a wide mouth, divided into two or more segments arranged in two opposite divisions or lips. a labiate flower has a labiate corol.

Labiate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip.

2. Belonging to a natural order of plants (Labiatae), of which the mint, sage, and catnip are examples. They are mostly aromatic herbs.

Labiate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A plant of the order Labiatae.

Labiate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To labialize.

Labiated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Labiate, a. (a).

Labiatifloral [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Alt. of Labiatifloral

2. Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.