How To Use Labiate In A Sentence

  • 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
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  • 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
  • the corolla of a snapdragon is bilabiate
  • -- Under this name are imported into this country the dried foliaceous tops of a strongly odoriferous labiate plant, growing three feet high in India and China, called in Bengalee and Hindu, _pucha pat_. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • In common with other labiates, Basil furnishes an aromatic, volatile oil, and on this account is much employed in France for flavouring soups, especially turtle soup.
  • Stem flattened, jointed; joints short; flowers from the apices of the joints; calyx tube short; petals irregular, almost bilabiate. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
  • They flowered abundantly, but produced only one-spurred bilabiate flowers during the whole summer. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
  • 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
  • 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
  • Judging from Centaurea, the smaller lip of the bilabiate species of Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • Whereas the flowers of the labiate family are treated by the distillers as favorites are by the gods, and are cut off in their youth, those of the Umbelliferæ are allowed to mature and develop into the oil-yielding fruits. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
  • Like other labiate herbs [490] it is aromatic and fragrant, because containing a volatile, camphoraceous, essential oil. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Besides, Herbert discovered towards the southwest point of the lagoon a natural warren, a slightly damp meadow, covered with willows and aromatic herbs which scented the air, such as thyme, basil, savory, all the sweet-scented species of the labiated plants, which the rabbits appeared to be particularly fond of. The Mysterious Island
  • Honey derived from cruciferous plants, such as rape, ladies 'smock, and the wallflower, crystallizes quickly, often, indeed, within the comb before it is removed from the hive; whilst Honey from labiate plants, and from fruit trees in general, remains unchanged for several months after being extracted from the comb. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • The whole plant possesses a balsamic odour, and an aromatic taste, due to its particular volatile oil, and its characteristic resin, as a fragrant labiate herb. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • The Calamint, or Basil Thyme, grows frequently in [344] our waysides and hedges, a labiate plant, with downy stems and leaves, whilst bearing light purple flowers. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • The mints are very common and easily recognizable on account of their square stems, opposite leaves, strongly bilabiate flowers, and the ovary splitting into four seed-like fruits (Fig.  120, _D_, _F_). Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
  • The cultivated Hyssop, now of frequent occurrence in the herb-bed, and a favourite plant there because of its fragrance, belongs to the labiate order, and possesses cordial qualities which give it rank as a Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Surprisingly, I only found two labiates, a family which is particularly associated with the Mediterranean and which had seemed well represented on a previous visit to the Spanish mainland.
  • THESE stony, gravelly heights produce a variety of herbacious plants, but one in particular I shall mention on account of its singular beauty; I believe it is a species Gerardea (Gerardea sammea) it grows erect, a single stem from a root, three or four feet in height, branching very regularly from about one half its length upwards, forming a cone or pyramid, profusely garnished with large tubular labiated scarlet or flame coloured flowers, which give the plant a very splendid appearance, even at Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
  • Each of the teeth of the calyx is represented by a long stalk, terminated by a single articulated leaflet, the bi-labiate form of the calyx is still recognisable; the two upper petals are united, the three lower separate; the tube of the calyx is not deformed and seems to be formed of the petioles of the sepals united by their stipules. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • No single bilabiate or one-spurred flower remains. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
  • Like most labiates, thyme is an aromatic plant with glandular trichomes on the leaves and floral parts contain monoterpenoid essential oils.

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