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What (who) is LABIAL - definition
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Labials; Labiam; Labial (disambiguation)
Labial
·adj Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.
II. Labial ·noun An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue pipe.
III. Labial ·adj Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.
IV. Labial ·noun One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile.
V. Labial ·adj Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w.
VII. Labial ·noun A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.
VIII. Labial ·adj Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as / (f/d), / (/ld), ·etc., and as eu and u in French, and o, u in German. ·see Guide to Pronunciation, // 11, 178.
labial
['le?b??l]
¦ adjective
1. chiefly Anatomy & Biology relating to the lips or a labium.
2. Phonetics (of a consonant) requiring partial or complete closure of the lips (e.g. p or w), or (of a vowel) requiring rounded lips (e.g. oo).
Derivatives
labialize or labialise verb
labially adverb
Origin
C16: from med. L. labialis, from L. labium 'lip'.
Labial
The term labial originates from Labium (Latin for "lip"), and is the adjective that describes anything of or related to lips, such as lip-like structures. Thus, it may refer to:
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Labial
The term labial originates from Labium (Latin for "lip"), and is the adjective that describes anything of or related to lips, such as lip-like structures. Thus, it may refer to:
- the lips
- In linguistics, a labial consonant
- In zoology, the labial scales
- the labia (genitalia)
- Labial (gene), a gene in Drosophila melanogaster
Examples of use of LABIAL
1. Labial herpes breaks out repeatedly, and the accidents begin in June.
2. Scarring of the recipient was minimised by running grafts along the edges of the nose and naso–labial groove between the lips and nose.