Meaning

5 senses
  1. (usually plural)A liplike structure; especially one of the vulva's two pairs of folds of skin on either side.

    Schamlippe

    губа́gubá

    a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva)

  2. The lip of a labiate corolla.

    ла́биумlábium, ни́жняя губа́nížnjaja gubá

  3. A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.

  4. A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.

    A liplike part of various invertebrates.

  5. The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The labia are folds of skin around the vaginal opening.

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  2. Somehow she tore her labia.

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  3. The external genitalia include the labia majora, mons pubis, labia minora, clitoris, and glands within the vestibule.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
liplike structure:
lip of a labiate corolla:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
liplike structure:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin labium (“a lip”). Doublet of lip.

Learned borrowing from Latin labium (“a lip”). Doublet of lip.

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Forms

plural: labia
Singularlabium
Plurallabia

irregular · Lesson

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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