Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LA'BI-ATE, or LA'BI-A-TED, a. [from L. labium, lip.]

In botany, a labiate corol is irregular, monopetalous, with two lips, or monopetalous, consisting of a narrow tube with a wide mouth, divided into two or more segments arranged in two opposite divisions or lips. – Martyn. Encyc.