Labium is the Latin word for

lip The lips are a horizontal pair of soft appendages attached to the jaws and are the most visible part of the mouth of many animals, including humans. Mammal lips are soft, movable and serve to facilitate the ingestion of food (e.g. sucklin ...

. In English, it may refer to: * Labium (botany), a modified petal in certain monocot flowers, which attracts insects for pollination *

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

, 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 of the family Ichneumonidae * Labium (wind instrument), a part of wind instruments, such as the

flue pipe A flue pipe (also referred to as a ''labial'' pipe) is an organ pipe that produces sound through the vibration of air molecules, in the same manner as a recorder or a whistle, in a pipe organ. Air under pressure (called ''wind'') is driven ...

or the recorder; see Labia is the plural of labium. It may refer to: *

Labia The labia are the major externally visible structures of the vulva. In humans and other primates, there are two pairs of labia: the ''labia majora'' (outer lips) are large and thick folds of skin that cover the vulva's other parts, while the ''la ...

, a part of the vulva * Labia (earwig), a genus of earwigs in the family Labiidae * Fausta Labia (1870–1935), Italian operatic soprano * Maria Labia (1880–1912), Italian operatic soprano, sister of Fausta * Labia family, a noble family of Venice

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