labiate
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- (adjective, noun) IPA(key): /ˈleɪbiət/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (verb) IPA(key): /ˈleɪbieɪt/
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Adjective edit
labiate (comparative more labiate, superlative most labiate)
- Having lips or liplike parts.
- (botany, of flowers such as the snapdragon) Having the corolla divided into two liplike parts.
- (botany) of, or belonging to the mint family (Labiatae, now Lamiaceae).
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having lips
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having corolla divided into two liplike parts
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belonging to the mint family
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Noun edit
labiate (plural labiates)
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plant of mint family
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Verb edit
labiate (third-person singular simple present labiates, present participle labiating, simple past and past participle labiated)
- To labialize.
- 1763, Richard Brookes, The Natural History of Insects:
- The flowers grow in spikes , and consist of a single , labiated , purple petal
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labiate