Today's words Word don't know: Today I learned that the plural of labellum is labellums.    From Wordnik.com.  [the lights go down and it's just you up there, getting them to feel like that] Reference

An allied species with a blue labellum occurs in the collection gathered at Purdie Ponds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

Moreover, when the stamens are petalodic, the form assumed is usually that of the labellum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Accordingly the first impression would be that the labellum is here transformed into a sterile stamen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

The ordinary structure of the flower with its three sepals, two petals, labellum, column; and inferior ovary, is well known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

The blossom is normal as to the proper perianth, except that the labellum is unusually papillose, bearded almost to the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

This petal, known as the "lip" or "labellum," is usually larger than the others, and different in color, as well as being frequently of peculiar shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

In most of these there was also a fusion of the two lower sepals, which were so twisted out of place as to occupy the situation usually held by the labellum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

In Orchids, this cohesion of sepals is very often co-existent with other more important changes, such as absence of the labellum, dislocation of the parts of the flower, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

This species is apparently prone to developmental errors so that the labellum can be petaloid or (as in this case) all the petals develop the labellum (lip) characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calochilus robertsonii - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Is it not curious the way the labellum sits on the top of the column?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

This leads me to conclude that the labellum is always a compound organ.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Malaxis paludosa, secondarily shifted their labellum to an uppermost position.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference

It has a name, the labellum or lip, and most often the flower is actually rotated.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference

An allied species with a blue labellum occurs in the collection gathered at Purdie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

Malaxis puts the labellum on top by continuing the rotation to a full 360 degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference

I am still more pleased that I was right about insects gnawing the fleshy labellum.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

They cling to the labellum, and by depressing it open up the entrance to the flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

My case of the Aceras with the aborted labellum squeezed against stigma supports your view.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Dracula wallisii from which it can be differentiated by their narrower labellum structures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Maybe it is better to avoid using tepals because it includes the labellum too, unless we intend to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The whole insect is of a bright pink colour, the large and oval abdomen looking like the labellum of an orchid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

This is important, as it explains all the astounding projections on the labellum of Oncidium, Phalaenopsis, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

The extreme flexibility and elasticity of the labellum was first observed by Mr. More (see first edition, page 99).    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Certainly, if I may trust the vessels, the simple labellum of Gymnadenia consists of three organs soldered together.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Lindley, from whom I asked for an orchid with a simple labellum, has most kindly sent me a lot of what he marks "rare" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Mormodes, labellum of.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference