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noun
Labium  n.  (pl. L. labia, E. labiums)  
1.
A lip, or liplike organ.
2.
The lip of an organ pipe.
3.
pl. (Anat.) The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.
4.
(Zool.)
(a)
The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxillae, usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum).
(b)
Inner margin of the aperture of a shell.





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"Labium" Quotes from Famous Books



... of their buccal organs, especially the formation of the labium, "which retains, either perfectly or approximately, the original form of a second ...
— Facts and Arguments for Darwin • Fritz Muller
... a more genial heaven? Is not the hand a spreading palm leaf with its lobes and veins? The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop. The lip—labium, from labor (?)—laps or lapses from the sides of the cavernous mouth. The nose is a manifest congealed drop or stalactite. The chin is a still larger drop, the confluent dripping of the face. The cheeks are a slide from the brows into ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau
... aequalis; sepalis obovato-oblongis, basi angustioribus sed in unguem vix attenuatis, membranaceis, uninerviis, venosis. Corolla bilabiata, tubo amplo recto, labiis obtusis, extus pubescens, intus hinc (inferius) barbata. Labium superius tripartitum; lobo medio bifido (e duobus conflato); laciniis omnibus obtusis; inferius obcordatum bilobum lobis rotundatis, densius barbatum. Stamina quatuor didynama, omnino inclusa. Filamenta glabra. Antherae reniformes, loculis apice confluentibus. Ovarium dense lanatum. Stylus ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt


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