bilabiate

American  

[bahy-lay-bee-it, -ayt] / 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

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Etymology

Origin of bilabiate

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

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Example Sentences

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bilabiate

Its bilabiate flowers are an inch long, of a fine violet colour, and disposed by twos or threes.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

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

Corolla.—Funnel-form; bilabiate; the upper lip erect, two-lobed; the lower three-lobed; a pair of ridges, either bearded or naked, running down the lower side of the throat.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

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

Involucral leaves 2, clasping; perianth ovate-oblong, laterally compressed above a subterete base, the apex at length bilabiate, denticulate.

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

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