labium
Americannoun
-
labia
plural
-
a lip or liplike part.
-
Anatomy.
-
a lip or lip-shaped structure or part.
-
any of the folds of skin bordering the vulva.
-
-
Botany. the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla.
-
Entomology. the posterior, unpaired member of the mouthparts of an insect, formed by the united second maxillae.
noun
-
a lip or liplike structure
-
any one of the four lip-shaped folds of the female vulva See labia majora labia minora
-
the fused pair of appendages forming the lower lip of insects
-
the lower lip of the corolla of labiate flowers
-
labia
plural
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Etymology
Origin of labium
1590–1600; < Latin: lip, akin to lambere to lick, lap 3. See labrum 1, lip
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
The outer row of teeth of the lower labium is sometimes a little shorter or longer than the figure shows, but the average is about as indicated.
From The Tadpoles of Bufo cognatus Say by Hobart M. Smith
The number is significant, since it agrees with that found in Edriophthalmous Crustacea, and assigns the labium of the Hexapod to the same somite numerically as that which carries the labium-like maxillipedes of those Crustacea.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
Endolabium: the inner or mouth surface of the labium: the hypopharynx when that is well developed.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Elinguata: without a tongue: forms in which the maxillae are connate with the labium: see synista.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
At the tip of the labium are the labellæ, two little lobes which serve to guide the piercing organs.
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
The round ligament attaches to the uterus near the uterine tubes, and extends to the labia majora.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The growths, called vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia, or VIN, form on the external parts of the genital area, or vulva, including the labia and clitoris.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2011
The whole of the uterus was inverted, and without the labia externa; its surface loose, fungous, and in several places easily broken down upon pressure; but there was no hardening nor ulceration.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
Was it all this while, Domine, labia aperies?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt
This is also true of the occasional adhesion of the labia minora in little girls, like the similar adhesion of the foreskin in boys.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Peter Charles Remondino
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
