labellum
Americannoun
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labella
plural
noun
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the part of the corolla of certain plants, esp orchids, that forms a distinct, often lobed, lip
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a lobe at the tip of the proboscis of a fly
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Origin of labellum
1820–30; < Latin, diminutive of labrum lip; for formation see castellum
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This includes the labellum, a part of the orchid flower that attracts insects and serves as a landing pad.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 24, 2018
This includes the labellum, a part of the orchid flower that attracts insects and serves as a landing pad4.
From Nature ● Jan. 22, 2018
In most of these there was also a fusion of the two lower sepals, which were so twisted out of place as to occupy the situation usually held by the labellum.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
The tube is not large, but it, and also the labellum, could not be darker if still to be classed as crimson.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Frederick Boyle
The labellum resembles that of P. intermedia, being three-lobed, the lateral lobes are erect, magenta purple in color and freckled.
From Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various
From the analogy of other cases it would appear as if the additional labella in this instance were the representatives of two stamens of the outer whorl.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Capitulum: a small head: the enlarged tip of an antenna: the little knob at tip of halteres in Diptera: the labella or lapping tip of the mouth of certain flies.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Orchids are very subject to an increase in the number of their labella.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
They probably pass through the thin membrane connecting the labella with the proboscis and there find their way into the wound made by the puncture when the insect bites.
From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Rennie Wilbur Doane
Pseudo-trachea: the ringed and ridged grooves on the labella of Diptera, by means of which they scrape their food.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
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