Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no labrum: an epithet applied in entomology to the mouth when it has no distinct labrum or upper lip, as in the spiders and most Diptera.

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Examples

  • I am exhausted. from all of the elabrate lies. you paint inside my fluttering eyelids when I am dreaming about our many splendoured goodbyes no more pretty ~little~ fairy tale love letters will you slide underneath my castle door.

    wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007

  • He did not want to elabrate on what the IEC viewed as appropriate political and governmental action.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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