Labium is the Latin word for

lip The lips are the visible body part at the mouth of many animals, including humans. Lips are soft, movable, and serve as the opening for food intake and in the articulation of sound and speech. Human lips are a tactile sensory organ, and can be ...

. In English, it may refer to: *

Labia The labia are part of the female genitalia; they are the major externally visible portions of the vulva. In humans, there are two pairs of labia: the ''labia majora'' (or the outer labia) are larger and thicker, while the '' labia minora'' are fo ...

, a part of the female external genitalia * Labium (botany), a modified petal in certain monocot flowers, which attracts insects for pollination *

Labium (arthropod mouthpart) The mouthparts of arthropods have evolved into a number of forms, each adapted to a different style or mode of feeding. Most mouthparts represent modified, paired appendages, which in ancestral forms would have appeared more like legs than mout ...

, a mouthpart of arthropods (the lower "lip") * Labium (wasp), a genus of

wasp A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. ...

s in the subfamily

Labeninae The Labeninae is a subfamily within the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae (aka Darwin wasps or Ichneumon wasps). There are 12 extant genera (listed below), grouped within four tribes, that exhibit a predominantly Gondwanan distribution - most ...

of the family

Ichneumonidae The Ichneumonidae, also known as the ichneumon wasps, Darwin wasps, or ichneumonids, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 25,000 species cur ...

* Labium (wind instrument), a part of wind instruments such as the recorder, see

fipple The term fipple specifies a variety of end-blown flute that includes the flageolet, recorder, and tin whistle. The Hornbostel–Sachs system for classifying musical instruments places this group under the heading "Flutes with duct or duct flute ...

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

Labia (earwig) ''Labia'' is a genus of earwigs belonging to the family Spongiphoridae. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution. Species: *'' Labia bhaktapurensis'' *'' Labia fanta'' *'' Labia harpya'' *''Labia minor ''Labia minor'', the lesser ...

, a genus of

earwig Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera. With about 2,000 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders. Earwigs have characteristic cerci, a pair of forcep-like pincers on their abdomen, and membranous wings folde ...

s in the family Labiidae * Labia family, a noble family of Venice

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