labium

Plural: labia

Noun

• A lip or lip-like structure, particularly a fold of the vulva.
• a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva)
• A liplike structure; especially one of the vulva's two pairs of folds of skin on either side.
• The lip of a labiate corolla.
• A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.
• 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.
• The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.

Examples

• Finding LABIUM in his rack, he made a bold, anatomical play in Scrabble.

Related Words

labrum, saccolabium