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Labial

Labial \La"bi*al\, n.

  1. (Phonetics) A letter or character representing an articulation or sound formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.

  2. (Mus.) An organ pipe that is furnished with lips; a flue pipe.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile.

Labial

Labial \La"bi*al\, a. [LL. labialis, fr. L. labium lip: cf. F. labial. See Lip.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.

  2. (Mus.) Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.

  3. (Phonetics)

    1. Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w.

    2. Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as [=oo] (f[=oo]d), [=o] ([=o]ld), etc., and as eu and u in French, and ["o], ["u] in German. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 11, 178.

  4. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial palpi of insects. See Labium.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
labial

"pertaining to the lips," 1590s, from Medieval Latin labialis "having to do with the lips," from Latin labium "lip" (see lip (n.)). The noun meaning “a labial sound” is from 1660s. Related: Labially.

Wiktionary
labial

a. 1 Of or pertaining to the lips or labia. 2 (context linguistics English) articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w. 3 (context dentistry English) Of an incisor or canine, on the side facing the lips. See mesial. 4 (context music English) Furnished with lips. n. 1 (context linguistics English) A labial consonant. 2 (context music English) An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound. 3 Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.

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WordNet
labial

  1. adj. of or relating to the lips of the mouth; "labial stops"

  2. relating to or near the female labium

labial

n. a consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips [syn: labial consonant]

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Labial

Labial (from Latin Labium) may refer to:

  • the lips
  • the labia (genitalia)
  • Labial (gene), a gene in Drosophila melanogaster
  • In linguistics, a labial consonant
  • In zoology, the labial scales
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Usage examples of "labial".

His hands, fumbling, found the greasy gapes of wet yoni, felt labial cuts plantlash across his fingers and begin to draw there as he fondled Flopsy and Mopsy, left and right.

With the hair put under the cap and the face washed with exception of a touch of labial pencil, Julie was a wonder with skin of porcelain and eyes color sapphire framed by dark eyelashes and graceful eyebrows.

Also, there are some glottal stops, fricatives, and labials that do not register properly.

Complete with receding labial ridges and a nice little cinquefoil clitoris above the doorway.

The shape of his jaw and the attachment of his tongue, together with the poorly developed left frontal lobe of his brain, made speech rudimentary, and he supplemented his glottals and labials with motions that Keyoda understood well enough.

He emitted a labial consonant and began flipping through pages in the folder.

The word took forever to slide back and forth from postdental through labial stop and back to palatal fricative, beside the sounds that danced through her brain now.

The robed figure then clipped weighted chains to the outer labial rings, dragging the cunt flesh downwards, similar loads elongating the nipple piercings into long slots.

She could feel it seeping from her vagina and slickening her labial folds with its thick essence.