Bot. [ad. L. LABELLUM.]

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  † a.  ? A segment of a leaf (obs.). b. The lip of a ringent corolla.

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1671.  Grew, Anat. Plants, iv. § 16. If the Leaves be much indented or jagg’d, now we have the Duplicature; wherein there are divers plaits in one Leaf, or Labels of a Leaf.

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1707.  Sloane, Jamaica, I. 162. The flower stands on a three inches long foot-stalk, is made like the flowers of the Aristolochia … the label being covered with a yellowish farina.

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1888.  Syd. Soc. Lex., Label, same as Labellum.

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