bilabiate

American  

[bahy-ley-bee-it, -eyt] / baɪˈleɪ bi ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

Botany.

1. two-lipped, as a corolla.

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bilabiate British  

/ baɪˈleɪbɪˌeɪt, -ɪt /

adjective

1. botany divided into two lips

   the snapdragon has a bilabiate corolla

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Other Word Forms

• nonbilabiate
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of bilabiate

First recorded in 1785–95; bi- ¹ + labiate

Example Sentences

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bilabiate

Involucral leaves 2; perianth dorsally compressed, the mouth truncate, bilabiate, decurved.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Adj. double; doubled &c. v.; bicipital†, bicephalous†, bidental†, bilabiate, bivalve, bivalvular†, bifold†, biform†, bilateral; bifarious†, bifacial†; twofold, two-sided; disomatous†; duplex; double-faced, double-headed; twin, duplicate, ingeminate†; second.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

Easily recognized at sight by its peculiar form, bilabiate and sinuous.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

Involucral leaves larger than the cauline; perianth laterally compressed, erect or decurved, obliquely truncate and bilabiate, the lobes entire or ciliate-dentate.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Fertile receptacle usually cruciately divided into 4 horizontal segments or involucres, which are tubular, vertically bilabiate and 1-fruited.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray