labium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A liplike structure; especially one of the vulva's two pairs of folds of skin on either side.
The lip of a labiate corolla.
A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.
A liplike part of various invertebrates.
The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.

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labium labia

Learned borrowing from Latin labium (“a lip”). Doublet of lip.

labrum saccolabium

eclabium labial labiate labiose labium inferius oris labium superius oris pseudolabium

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