labiate

ADJECTIVE
  1. having lips or parts that resemble lips
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  • Most labiates have glandular trichomes that emerge from the epidermal surface of their leaves, stems and reproductive structures.
  • Lateral pelories are generally of zygomorphic structure, though of course in a less degree than the normal bilabiate flowers, but they have unequal spurs, the middle one being of the ordinary length, the two neighboring being shorter, and those standing next to the opposite side of the flower being the shortest of all. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
  • The flowers appear in racemes arising in whorls on the terminal part of the stems and are labiates, bilaterally symmetrical and purplish in color.
  • I chose some plants of the normal type with one or two peloric flowers besides the bilabiate majority which I found on a locality in the neighborhood of Hilversum in Holland. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
  • Its bilabiate flowers are an inch long, of a fine violet colour, and disposed by twos or threes. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • The honey gathered from the genus erica (termed _heather honey_) and most labiate plants, is wholesome. A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year
  • All labiates have four nutlets at the base of their flower at maturity.
  • The Peppermint (_Mentha piperita_), or "Brandy Mint," so called because having a pungent smell, and taste of a peppery (_piper_) nature, is a labiate plant, found not uncommonly in moist places throughout Britain, and occurring of several varieties. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Each of the Horehounds is a labiate plant; and this, the water variety, bears flesh coloured flowers, whilst containing a volatile oil, a resin, a bitter principle, and tannin. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Slackia of Cuttackboom has white infundibuliform bilabiate flowers, tubo brevi, deorsum leniter curvato, lobo medio labii inferioris reliquis minore, lab.super. intus biplicato, plicis sursum convergentibus, stam. quinto valde rudimentario, antheris apice cohaerentibus. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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