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Definition of Ringent
1. a. Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.
Definition of Ringent
1. Adjective. Having the semblance of lips parted wide, such as may be observed in certain flowers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ringent
1. having open liplike parts [adj]
Medical Definition of Ringent
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ringent
Literary usage of Ringent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"If the lips be widely separate, they are said to be ringent (ringo, to grin).
Ex. monkey-flower. If the upper and lower sides are pressed together, ..."
2. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"... lower lip with 2 subulate ones : corol ringent : 2 short stamens iT t>£0.iu.
... ringent ..."
3. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"A. Flowers ringent. — Caprifolium Tourn. Inst., p. 608. « .1 1. ... Flowers ringent.
There are varieties of this species with either smooth, pubescent, ..."
4. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"Corolla ringent, hairy ; helmet narrow, and very much falcate; lower lip 3-lobed,
terminal lobe ... ringent ..."
5. The Annals of Horticulture (1849)
"... it is a reddish-brown, scaly, viscid stem, with ringent or gaping flowers of
nearly tfie same colour, but entirely destitute of leaves. ..."
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