Lexic.us

Definition of Lipped

1. Adjective. Having a lip or lips. "A virgin purest lipped"

Definition of Lipped

1. a. Having a lip or lips; having a raised or rounded edge resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc.

Definition of Lipped

1. Adjective. having a raised lip ¹

2. Adjective. (qualifier in combination) having some specific type of lip ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lipped

1. lip [v] - See also: lip

Medical Definition of Lipped

1. 1. Having a lip or lips; having a raised or rounded edge resembling the lip; often used in composition; as, thick-lipped, thin-lipped, etc. 2. Labiate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lipped

Literary usage of Lipped

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Erect herbs ; calyx 2-lipped. Calyx distinctly 2-lipped, closed in fruit. ... Flowers in terminal panicled racemes or spikes; corolla 2-lipped. ..."

2. Paxton's Flower Garden by Sir Joseph Paxton, John Lindley, Thomas Baines (1882)
"The Ruby-lipped Cattleya is that on whieh the genus was founded. It was first sent to Europe by Mr. ..."

3. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Corolla 2-lipped: lower lip flat, spreading, with a prominent 2-lobed palate. ... Corolla transverse at the summit of the scape, 2-lipped, the palate a mere ..."

4. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"Corolla 2-lipped. Stamens ascending and spreading above, ... Calyx 2-lipped, closed in fruit. 19. BRUNELLA. Lips of the calyx toothed. ..."

5. The Peccary--with Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World by R. A. Donkin (1985)
"1970), the number of white-lipped peccaries killed was more than double that of collared peccaries.96 A survey (1966) of 430 families along the lower ..."

6. Treatise on Mills and Millwork by William Fairbairn (1871)
"COEFFICIENTS OF DISCHARGE OF VERTICAL, THIN-lipped, RECTANGULAR ORIFICES, WITH COMPLETE ... THEORETICAL AND ACTUAL DISCHARGE FROM A THIN-lipped ORIFICE OF A ..."

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