Labial

Quick meaning: Labial is an adjective meaning (anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.

Meaning

(anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.

More Meanings

1. (linguistics, phonetics) Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.
2. (dentistry, of an incisor or canine) On the side facing the lips. See mesial.
3. (music) Furnished with lips.
4. (linguistics, phonetics) A consonant articulated by the lips.
5. (music) An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.
6. (zootomy) Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.

Example Sentences

a labial organ pipe

Those were his first words of the voyage, and they were spoken with unstuttered labials.

The wound that does not kill Christ is the magical labial wound; it is the seal of the resurrection and an expression of the myth of eternal recurrence.

You have but the same four letters to describe the salute which you perform on your grandmother’s forehead, and that which you bestow on the sacred cheek of your mistress; but the same four letters, and not one of them a labial.

Word Forms

• labials

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lip, palpus, palpi, palps, labrous, vaginolabial.

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