Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying below the lips.
- noun One of the series of horny plates which cover the edge of the lower lip in reptiles such as snakes and lizards; a lower labial or inferior labial: correlated with
supralabial .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Below the
lower lip ; said of certainscales ofreptiles andfishes .
Etymologies
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infra- + labial
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Examples
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In two larger specimens there are six plates of the infralabial row, and in two smaller but five.
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Its six infralabial scales are found only in the former series.
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The presence or absence of the sixth infralabial, and of the frenoorbital plates, are of this nature.
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Bat two specimens are known, and one of these has five and the other six infralabial plates.
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