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To labialize. Brewer.

Same as Labiate, a. (a).

Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.

Having one lip only; as, a unilabiate corolla.

The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

A labiate plant (the Lycopus Europæus). Gypsies are said to stain their skin with its juice.

Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.

Having the appearance of being labiate; -- said of certain polypetalous corollas.

A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

Labiate.

A genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis).

The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail.

A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.

A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram (O. Marjorana) and the wild marjoram (O. vulgare). Spenser.

An American aromatic herb (Monarda didyma), with showy, bright red, labiate flowers.

get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. Shak. Molucca palm (Bot.), a labiate herb from Asia (Molucella lævis), having a curious cup-shaped calyx. -- Palm cabbage, the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food. -- Palm cat (Zoöl.), the common paradoxure. -- Palm crab (Zoöl.), the purse crab.…

A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.

Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.