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Labium

//ˈleɪ.bi.əm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A liplike structure; especially one of the vulva's two pairs of folds of skin on either side. plural-normally
  2. 2
    a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva) wordnet
  3. 3
    The lip of a labiate corolla.
  4. 4
    A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.
  5. 5
    A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.; A liplike part of various invertebrates.
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  1. 6
    The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin labium (“a lip”). Doublet of lip.

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