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Definition of Bilabiate
1. Adjective. Having two lips. "The corolla of a snapdragon is bilabiate"
Definition of Bilabiate
1. a. Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.
Definition of Bilabiate
1. Adjective. (botany) Having two lips; two-lipped. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bilabiate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Bilabiate
1. Two-lipped, for example of a corolla in which fusion of an anterior group and a posterior group of petals extends beyond the top of the corolla tube. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilabiate
Literary usage of Bilabiate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Corolla bilabiate ; upper lip vaulted ; tul« ascending, ... bilabiate, finally
dividing to the base ; lips entire, the upper one with a ..."
2. Catalogue of the African Plants by Friedrich Martin Joseph Welwitsch, Alfred Barton Rendle, William Philip Hiern (1900)
"... the limb 5-lobed, spreading, sub-bilabiate ; stigma deeply bilobed ; fruit
drooping, ovoid-pyramidal, •4-winged ; the wings semicircular, broad, ..."
3. California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children by Alice Merritt Davidson (1898)
"In this chapter we shall study some common flowers belonging to two two-lipped,
or bilabiate families. The Mimulus, or monkey-flower, Fig. ..."
4. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"... interrupted; bracts very small: calyx deeply bilabiate: corolla small, about
8 mm. long, hardly at all exserted; the lower lip nearly twice as long as ..."
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