two-lipped

The corolla is of a pale bluish violet, of a deeper tint on the inner surface than the outer, tubular, two-lipped, the upper lip with two and the lower with three lobes.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various

The archegonia are protected by being sunk in depressions of the disk or by a special two-lipped involucre.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Sporangia clustered around the slender bristle, which is the prolongation of a vein, and surrounded by a vase-like, slightly two-lipped involucre.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

From the flower often being two-lipped (see Fig.  120), the name of the order (_Labiatifloræ_) is derived.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

These plants, which are mostly natives of mild climates of the old world, are characterized by having square stems; opposite, simple leaves and branches; and more or less two-lipped flowers which appear in the axils of the leaves, occasionally alone, but usually several together, forming little whorls, which often compose loose or compact spikes or racemes.

Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

Mint family, the labiates, or gaping two-lipped flowers, the arched hood here answering to the upper lip, the spreading base forming the lower lip, which is usually designed as a convenient threshold for the insects while sipping the nectar deep within the tube.

My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873

Pinguicula, "Qy. two-lipped? it is monopetalous, and monosepalous, the calyx and corolla being each all in one piece."

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

San Diego thornmint (a tiny funnel-shaped, two-lipped, light violet flower that blooms in spring) and Orcutt's hazardia (a native shrub that blooms in late summer and early fall).

Fore, right! Priscilla Lister SPECIAL TO THE UNION-TRIBUNE 2010

San Diego thornmint (a tiny funnel-shaped, two-lipped, light violet flower that blooms in spring) and Orcutt's hazardia (a native shrub that blooms in late summer and early fall).

Fore, right! Priscilla Lister SPECIAL TO THE UNION-TRIBUNE 2010

San Diego thornmint (a tiny funnel-shaped, two-lipped, light violet flower that blooms in spring) and Orcutt's hazardia (a native shrub that blooms in late summer and early fall).

Fore, right! Priscilla Lister SPECIAL TO THE UNION-TRIBUNE 2010