单词 | labiated |
释义 | labiatedadj. 1. Botany. Designating flowers having a labium or two labia, and plants having such flowers; = labiate adj. 1. Cf. labium n. 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [adjective] labiated1687 labiate1785 lipped1836 labiatifloral1846 labiatiflorous1855 1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 286 The Flowers are Monopetalous, labiated for the most part or galeated. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 173 Small stalks, having..many white labiated flowers. 1727 E. Strother tr. P. Hermann Materia Medica I. 118 All verticillate Plants are either galeated, or labiated, or both. 1789 W. Meyrick New Family Herbal 32 A single petal of the labiated kind, with a cylindric tube, and a gaping throat. 1806 Ann. Agric. 44 121 Afterwards those of the cruciferous, leguminous, labiated, and umbelliferous plants. 1860 J. Donaldson Brit. Agric. xxi. 726 The herbage and even the flowers abound with resinous dots, the seat of an essential oil, on which the warm and aromatic qualities of the labiated plants depend. 1901 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Marine-Hosp. Service) 16 208 Basilic (Ocymum Album). Labiated plant. 1979 P. C. Marsh & M. S. Levine tr. E. Pauli Classical Cooking Mod. Way 159 This herb [sc. thyme] is from a low-growing plant with small, aromatic, rolled-up leaves and reddish-lilac labiated flowers. 2. Chiefly Zoology. Having a lip-like part. Cf. labiate adj. 2. ΚΠ 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 192 The whitish, depressed Cochlea, with a roundish, labiated, and dentated mouth. 1802 C. Stewart Elements Nat. Hist. II. 406 Patella... Labiated; i.e. furnished with an internal lip; the shell intire. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. xii. 333 In some [Annelidans] it [sc. the mouth] is simple, orbicular or labiated. 1851 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 124 The foot in front is subtruncate, acutely auricled and labiated. 1884 Beeton's Dict. Nat. Hist. 164/1 The head [in Cestoidea] is either only simply labiated, or provided with pits, or with two or four suctorious orifices. 1910 H. A. Pilsbry Man. Conchol. XX. 220 Peristome white, thick, moderately expanded, its face concave, heavily labiated within. 1978 M. Y. El-Najjar & K. R. McWilliams Forensic Anthropol. iv. 82 Initially sharply defined lines of muscle insertion on the anterior and posterior surfaces of the pubis become thicker and labiated. 2011 Mycologia 103 394/1 Ostiolar opening single, wide, appearing labiated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1687 |
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