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  

/ -ɪt, baɪˈleɪbɪˌeɪt /

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

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.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

But it differs in having its corolla quite distinctly bilabiate, though of the same general tubular, funnel-form shape.

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

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 MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

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

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

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 Gray, Asa