the part of the corolla of certain plants, esp orchids, that forms a distinct, often lobed, lip
2.
a lobe at the tip of the proboscis of a fly
Derived forms
labelloid (laˈbelloid)
adjective
Word origin
C19: New Latin, diminutive of Latin labrum lip
Examples of 'labella' in a sentence
labella
We obtained 37 723 and 34 020 unigenes from petals and labella, respectively.
Yuxia Yang, Jingjing Wang, Zhihu Ma, Guosheng Sun, Changwei Zhang 2014, 'De novo sequencing and comparative transcriptome analysis of white petals and redlabella in Phalaenopsis for discovery of genes related to flower color and floraldifferentation', Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniaehttps://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/asbp/article/view/3406. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)