labium
IPA: ɫɑbiʌm
noun
- (anatomy, usually in the plural) A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin on either side of the vulva.
- (botany) The lip of a labiate corolla.
- (entomology) A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.
- (zoology) A liplike part of various invertebrates.
- (music) The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.
Examples of "labium" in Sentences
- The labium is as long or longer than it is wide.
- The labium is formed by first or second maxillae.
- The labium encloses all other mouthparts like a sheath.
- The larvae have silk glands which are located on the labium.
- Anterior coxae separated by scarcely the width of the labium.
- Their labium can shoot out from the head using blood pressure.
- Labium long to lap up nectar; mandibles chew pollen and mould wax.
- In place of the labium, crustaceans possess a second pair of maxillae.
- Labium one half as long as maxillae, a little longer than wide, rounded.
- In one fluid motion, her maxilla gathered in the severed head and guided it into her labium.
- At the tip of the labium are the labellæ, two little lobes which serve to guide the piercing organs.
- The labium, which is the largest and most conspicuous, is apparently cylindrical but is grooved above throughout its length.
- (mandibles), and two pairs of maxillæ, the second and basal pair being united at their base to form the so-called labium, or under lip.
- The larvae of odonates are easily distinguished from those of other aquatic larvae by their long, hinged labium that is used to seize prey.
- The labium was the equivalent of the hyoid, the labial palps and maxillipedes the equivalent of the "hyoid" elements which form the branchial arches.
- The labium, which is divided into three joints, becomes flattened towards the tip, which is square, and ends in two thin membranous lobes, probably endowed with
- He said afterwards 'but you turned up on a motorbike!!!!!!!' as if I'd turned up in a see-through lace mini dress and showed the neighbours my labium majus piercing.
- Once you've fastened an oversized labium like this to your bike you've already admitted you need fenders, so next time you're in the market for a frame you might want to think differently.
- I only hope the damage caused to the collective psyche of our nation's youth by a photograph of two women making gentle nasal and labia superfluos entafada/labium inferius contact is not irreparable.