Definitions for labium

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labium la·bi·um

Spelling: [ley-bee-uh m]

IPA: /ˈleɪ bi əm/

Labium is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in labium (abilmu).

Definitions for labium

noun

1. a lip or liplike part.
2. Anatomy. a lip or lip-shaped structure or part. any of the folds of skin bordering the vulva.
3. Botany. the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla.
4. Entomology. the posterior, unpaired member of the mouthparts of an insect, formed by the united second maxillae.

Origin of labium

1590-1600; Latin: lip, akin to lambere to lick, lap³. See labrum¹, lip

Examples for labium

The labium is a single organ which projects beneath the aperture of the mouth.

In the male the labium is emarginate, in the female it is intire.

But the structure of the tongue itself (labium, l) is most curious.

The labium is as long as it is in Drassus, but contracted at the base.

The labium is narrowed at the end and a little longer than wide (fig. 26).

The labium (fig. 12) is furnished with two palpi, which are 3-jointed.

When it emerges from the labium, is long and tubular, and capable of inflation.

The labium is short and the maxillæ straight, as in Anyphæna.

The labium is long and narrow, and forked at the end (fig. 72).

The lower joint of the labium, where it is jointed; in other cases its base.