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bilabiate

[ bahy-ley-bee-it, -eyt ]

adjective

, Botany.
  1. two-lipped, as a corolla.


bilabiate

/ -ɪt; baɪˈleɪbɪˌeɪt /

adjective

  1. botany divided into two lips

    the snapdragon has a bilabiate corolla

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • nonbi·labi·ate adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bilabiate1

First recorded in 1785–95; bi- 1 + labiate
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Example Sentences

Involucral leaves 2; perianth dorsally compressed, the mouth truncate, bilabiate, decurved.

Corolla.—Tubular; six lines to an inch long; bilabiate; the lips strongly revolute; the upper four-lobed, the lower entire.

Os′cule, a little mouth: a small bilabiate aperture; Os′cūlum, a mouth in sponges: one of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm.

Occasionally some of the petals become more united than others, and then the corolla assumes a bilabiate or two-lipped form, as seen in the division of Compositae called Labiatiflorae.

This is a common form of gamopetalous corolla; and the calyx is often bilabiate also.

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