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labiate
Part of speech: AdjectiveFormed with lips; in bot., applied to irregular gamopetalous flowers with an upper and under portion separated more or less by a hiatus or gap.
Usage examples "labiate":- Of these one was built amongst the stems of a common prickly labiate marsh- plant which has white and mauve flowers. - "The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1", Allan O. Hume.
- It only affords the fragrant aromatic principles common to most of the labiate plants. - "Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure", William Thomas Fernie.
- In many places are clumps of birches and junipers, which are the principal trees of the Pamir, and on the undulating plains grow tamarisks and sedges and mugwort, and a sort of reed very abundant by the sides of the saline pools, and a dwarf labiate called " terskenne" by the Kirghizes. - "The Adventures of a Special Correspondent", Jules Verne.