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Labium

Labium \La"bi*um\, n.; pl. L. Labia, E. Labiums. [L.]

  1. A lip, or liplike organ.

  2. The lip of an organ pipe.

  3. pl. (Anat.) The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.

  4. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxill[ae], usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum).

    2. Inner margin of the aperture of a shell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
labium

1590s, plural labia, from Latin labium "lip" (see lip (n.)).

Wiktionary
labium

n. 1 (context anatomy English) A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva. 2 (context botany English) The lip of a labiate corolla. 3 (context music English) The lip against which pressured air is driven in a flue pipe in an organ.

WordNet
labium
  1. n. any of the four lip-shaped folds of the female vulva

  2. [also: labia (pl)]

Wikipedia
Labium

Labium is the Latin word for lip. In English, it may refer to:

  • Labia, a part of the female external genitalia
  • Labium (botany), a modified petal in certain monocot flowers, which attracts insects for pollination
  • Labium (arthropod mouthpart), a mouthpart of arthropods (the lower "lip")
  • Labium (wasp), a genus of wasps in the family Ichneumonidae
  • Labium (wind instrument), a part of wind instruments such as the recorder, see fipple

Labia is the plural of labium. It may refer to:

  • Labia (earwig), a genus of earwigs in the family Labiidae, as in Lab's Labia.
  • Labia (family), a noble family of Venice

Usage examples of "labium".

The labia was normal, what you would assume post intercourse and there were no internal abrasions like with the first bride.

His mother, his father, great cats and the wet scent of their breath, like coolant on overheated coils, the soft taste of Joice in his mouth, her body moving beneath him, sinking into her, tiniest folding of her labia around his penis, the rising to orgasm, the overloading, the heat, the peace of darkness.

According to John Knott, the French traveler, Le Vaillant, said that the more coquettish among the Hottentot girls are excited by extreme vanity to practice artificial elongation of the nympha and labia.

After labor, sloughing of the parts commenced and progressed to such an extent that in one month there were no traces of the labia, nymphae, vagina, perineum, or anus.

Sir Samuel Baker is accredited in The Lancet with giving an account in Latin text of the modus operandi of a practice among the Nubian women of removing the clitoris and nymphae in the young girl, and abrading the adjacent walls of the external labia so that they would adhere and leave only a urethral aperture.

Investigation has shown that the women were obliged to stand up on account of elongated nymphae and labia, while the men sought a sitting posture on account of the termination of the urethra being on the inferior side of the base of the penis, artificially formed there in order to prevent conception.

The first ablation is obtained by applying fire or caustics to the nipples, the second by amputation of the breasts, one or both, the third by diverse gashes, chiefly across the breast, and the fourth by resection of the nymphae or of the nymphae and clitoris, and the superior major labia, the cicatrices of which would deform the vulva.

With another couple of huge thrusts he buried almost all of his length deep within her, then released his grip on her labia, obviously savouring the feeling as the walls of her vagina clamped down onto his rampaging weapon.

Down on his knees, the man in front of her slid his tongue upwards from her stocking tops over the still unmarked length of her inner thighs, before running it along the length of her labia, noticeably savouring the mixed taste of her urine and her sex.

She shook her head in protest, gasping then whimpering as the clamp was tightened around one delicate fold of her labia, then she hung her head back, tears running down her cheeks as they fastened a second clamp onto her other outer labia.

He held her head close to her yoni, kissing her lifeless lips, cutting his mouth on her urine-stenched labia, back and forth between them, loving Esme, refusing to believe she was gone.

And so, almost in tandem with Rebecca she began to masturbate, her labia slick with juices of her arousal and her mouth falling open to draw in huge breaths as her orgasm approached.

He pinched, scratched and bit her breasts, reaming her vagina with powerful thrusts that smacked the tines of the cock ring right inside her labia, rasping her hard, erect and unhooded clitoris.

In and out in long reaming strokes, with their balls slapping against her labia and her buttocks, their shafts pistoned into her.

The arrowhead of his cock homed through the outer lips of her labia, easily splaying the scalloped pink folds of her inner lips and drilling into the hot recesses of her humid vagina.