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- noun Plural form of
labellum .
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Examples
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Its mouthparts consist of soft, spongy structures called the labella and proboscis.
unknown title 2009
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Its mouthparts consist of soft, spongy structures called the labella and proboscis.
unknown title 2009
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Its mouthparts are made of soft, spongy structures called a labella and a proboscis.
unknown title 2009
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Its mouthparts consist of soft, spongy structures called the labella and proboscis.
unknown title 2009
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Its mouthparts are made of soft, spongy structures called a labella and a proboscis.
unknown title 2009
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Its mouthparts are made of soft, spongy structures called a labella and a proboscis.
unknown title 2009
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From the analogy of other cases it would appear as if the additional labella in this instance were the representatives of two stamens of the outer whorl.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Duchartre [449] mentions a flower of _Cattleya Forbesii_ in which there were two labella in addition to the ordinary one, the column being in its normal condition.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Here there were three sepals, two lateral petals, one of which was adherent to the side of the column; the central labellum was seemingly deficient, but there were two pseudo-labella placed laterally in the position of the two antero-lateral stamens of the outer series (A 2, A 3).
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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They probably pass through the thin membrane connecting the labella with the proboscis and there find their way into the wound made by the puncture when the insect bites.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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