Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having two lips or liplike parts, as in the flowers of many plants in the mint family.
from The Century Dictionary.
- . Possessing, or having the appearance of possessing, two lips: in botany, applied to an irregular corolla or calyx whose lobes are so arranged as to form an upper and a lower lip.
- In conchology, having the outer lip doubled by a thickening behind the margin or true lip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having two
lips ;two-lipped .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having two lips
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Examples
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Stem flattened, jointed; joints short; flowers from the apices of the joints; calyx tube short; petals irregular, almost bilabiate.
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The mints are very common and easily recognizable on account of their square stems, opposite leaves, strongly bilabiate flowers, and the ovary splitting into four seed-like fruits (Fig. 120, _D_, _F_).
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Slackia of Cuttackboom has white infundibuliform bilabiate flowers, tubo brevi, deorsum leniter curvato, lobo medio labii inferioris reliquis minore, lab.super. intus biplicato, plicis sursum convergentibus, stam. quinto valde rudimentario, antheris apice cohaerentibus.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Judging from Centaurea, the smaller lip of the bilabiate species of
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Lateral pelories are generally of zygomorphic structure, though of course in a less degree than the normal bilabiate flowers, but they have unequal spurs, the middle one being of the ordinary length, the two neighboring being shorter, and those standing next to the opposite side of the flower being the shortest of all.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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They flowered abundantly, but produced only one-spurred bilabiate flowers during the whole summer.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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I chose some plants of the normal type with one or two peloric flowers besides the bilabiate majority which I found on a locality in the neighborhood of Hilversum in Holland.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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No single bilabiate or one-spurred flower remains.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Its bilabiate flowers are an inch long, of a fine violet colour, and disposed by twos or threes.
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Its bilabiate flowers are an inch long, of a fine violet colour, and disposed by twos or threes.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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