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- noun Plural form of
labiate .
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Examples
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In common with the other labiates, Basil, both the wild and the sweet, furnishes an aromatic volatile camphoraceous oil.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Like all fruticulose labiates which have a hard compact tissue and contain much oily matter, the lavender absorbs less moisture than herbs which are soft and spongy, and, as it always prefers a dry calcareous, even stony, soil, the northern cultivators find that by selecting such localities the tissues of the plant take up so little water that the frost does not injure them.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various
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Similar occurrences may be met with in labiates and jasmines, and in _Erica hyemalis_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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But the Water Betony (Figwort) belongs not to the labiates, but to the _Scrophulariaceoe_, or scrofula-curing order of plants.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Among the less abundant labiates of these parts is the melissa, which yields, however, a very fragrant oil.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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Norman [264] mentions a case wherein the carpels of _Anchusa ochroleuca_ were replaced by two leaves; from this he draws the inference that the pistil of borages and labiates is really composed of two leaves, placed fore and aft, the margins of the leaves being congenitally fused.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Pelories of labiates seem to occur often in Austria, but are rare in Holland; white bilberries (_Vaccinium Myrtillus_) have many known localities throughout
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Before leaving the labiates, we may cite a curious instance of pelorism in the toad-flax, which is quite different from the ordinary peloric variety.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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For the support of this conception of a specific or varietal retrograde change many other facts are afforded by the distribution of the characteristic color and of the several patterns of the lips of other labiates, and our general understanding of the relationships of the species and genera in this family may in a broad sense be based on the comparison of these seemingly subordinate characteristics.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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But then we find that labiates and their allies among the dicotyledonous plants, and orchids among the monocotyledonous ones are especially subjected to this alteration.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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