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

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

Corolla.—Tubular; over an inch long, with five spreading lobes; somewhat bilabiate.

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

Calyx.—Deeply bilabiate; upper lip notched; lower usually entire, or occasionally three-toothed or cleft.

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)

Calyx bilabiate, closed in fruit; the rounded lips entire.

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