labium

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a lip or liplike structure in anatomy or botany

   The insect's lower labium serves to manipulate its food.

From Latin labium ('lip'), related to labrum ('lip, edge') and ultimately to the Proto-Indo-European root *leb- ('lip, to lick').

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