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What is the noun for labium?

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labial
  1. (linguistics) A labial consonant.
  2. (music) An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.
  3. Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.
labium
  1. (botany) The lip of a labiate corolla.
  2. (music) The lip against which pressured air is driven in a flue pipe in an organ.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Several groups developed active predatory larvae, still showing the spoon-shaped labium.”
      “Biplica, in addition, lacks the strongly tubercled and denticulate labium of Eriptycha.”
      “One of the most unusual features of odonate larvae is the large, hinged lower lip, or labium.”
labialization
  1. (phonology) A secondary articulatory feature of usually consonants that involves the contraction or rounding of the labia during pronunciation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Among the very few cases where they do, are pharyngealization in Nootka, which occurs on the glottal stop only, and labialization in Kabardian.”
labialism
  1. (medicine) A form of stammering characterized by confusion in the use of the labial consonants.
labiality
  1. The quality of being labial, that is, lip- or labia-like.
labiate
  1. (botany) A plant of the mint family (Labiatae)
labialisation
  1. Alternative spelling of labialization
  2. Examples:
    1. “Common secondary articulations are labialisation, palatalisation, velarisation and pharyngealisation.”
      “If either of the two was voiceless, the whole cluster was devoiced, and the first obstruent also lost its labialisation, if it was present.”
labia
labialisations
  1. plural of labialisation
labializations
  1. plural of labialization
labialities
  1. plural of labiality
labiates
  1. plural of labiate
labials
  1. plural of labial
labiae
  1. (nonstandard) plural of labia
labias
  1. (nonstandard) plural of labia
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