labium

See also: Labium

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: lā'bē-əm
• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.bi.əm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪbiəm

Noun

labium (plural labia)

1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) A liplike structure; especially one of the vulva's two pairs of folds of skin on either side.

   Hyponyms: labium majus, labium minus

2. (botany) The lip of a labiate corolla.
3. (entomology) A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.
   1. (zoology) A liplike part of various invertebrates.
4. (music) The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.

Derived terms

• eclabium
• labial
• labiate
• labiose
• labium inferius oris
• labium superius oris
• pseudolabium

Related terms

• labrum
• saccolabium

Translations

liplike structure

Bulgarian: устна (bg) f (ustna) Chinese: Mandarin: 脣 / 唇 (zh) (chún) Estonian: häbememokk (et) Finnish: huuli (fi); häpyhuuli (fi) (in vulva) French: lèvre (fr) f, lèvre de la vulve f German: Schamlippe (de) f Hungarian: álarc (hu) Marathi: जिवणी (jivṇī), चीरी (cīrī), भेगा (bhegā), दला (dalā), स्त्रीपुष्पदला (strīpuṣpadlā), स्त्रीपुष्पहार (strīpuṣpahār), कळी (kaḷī), कलिका (kalikā), मुकुल (mukul), रती (ratī), मदनमंजिरी (madanmañjirī), ऋतुमंजिरी (rutumañjirī), पुष्पगंधा (puṣpagandhā), नार (nār) Polish: warga sromowa (pl) f Romanian: labie (ro) f Russian: губа́ (ru) f (gubá) Spanish: labio (es) m, labio de la vulva m Swedish: blygdläpp (sv) c Volapük: kunudalip

lip of a labiate corolla

Chinese: Mandarin: 脣 / 唇 (zh) (chún) Finnish: huuli (fi) Russian: ла́биум m (lábium), ни́жняя губа́ f (nížnjaja gubá)

References

• “labium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “labium”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Malibu, malibu

French

Noun

labium m (plural labiums)

1. (zoology) labium

Further reading

• “labium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.