bilabiate

American

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

adjective

Botany.

two-lipped, as a corolla.

bilabiate British

/ -ɪt, baɪˈleɪbɪˌeɪt /

adjective

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

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Corolla.—Tubular; six lines to an inch long; bilabiate; the lips strongly revolute; the upper four-lobed, the lower entire.

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Os′cule, a little mouth: a small bilabiate aperture; Os′cūlum, a mouth in sponges: one of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm.

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Occasionally some of the petals become more united than others, and then the corolla assumes a bilabiate or two-lipped form, as seen in the division of Compositae called Labiatiflorae.

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This is a common form of gamopetalous corolla; and the calyx is often bilabiate also.

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