Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The median petal of an orchid flower, usually different in shape, size, or color from the two lateral petals; lip.
- noun A liplike part, such as the tip of the labium of certain flies, used for lapping up liquids.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, one of the three divisions of an orchidaceous corolla, differing from the others in shape or direction, and not seldom spurred; the lip.
- noun In entomology, a part of the mouth of an insect, by some considered to be the epipharynx. In Diptera the labellum is one of a pair of tumid lobes terminating the theca of the proboscis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small appendage beneath the upper lip or labrum of certain insects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The lower central
petal oforchid flowers , usually developed to beshowy and attractpollinators .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Today's words Word don't know: Today I learned that the plural of labellum is labellums.
the lights go down and it's just you up there, getting them to feel like that matociquala 2008
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This experiment let them show that the protein was made in the fly's major taste organ (called the labellum) and trace its manufacture to a subset of sensory cells that respond to noxious chemicals.
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This experiment let them show that the protein was made in the fly's major taste organ (called the labellum) and trace its manufacture to a subset of sensory cells that respond to noxious chemicals.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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This experiment let them show that the protein was made in the fly's major taste organ (called the labellum) and trace its manufacture to a subset of sensory cells that respond to noxious chemicals.
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Does it not imply that all that part of the labellum which is supplied by vessels coming from a lateral bundle must be part of a primordially distinct organ, however closely the two may have become united?
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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This species is apparently prone to developmental errors so that the labellum can be petaloid or (as in this case) all the petals develop the labellum (lip) characteristics.
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This species is apparently prone to developmental errors so that the labellum can be petaloid or (as in this case) all the petals develop the labellum (lip) characteristics.
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This species is apparently prone to developmental errors so that the labellum can be petaloid or (as in this case) all the petals develop the labellum (lip) characteristics.
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An allied species with a blue labellum occurs in the collection gathered at Purdie Ponds.
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A similar occurrence happens occasionally in _Lycaste Skinneri_, thus recalling the structure of _Masdevallia_, where the labellum is normally very small.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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