ringent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RING'ENT, adjective [Latin ringor, to make wry faces, that is, to wring or twist.] In botany, a ringent or labiate corol is one which is irregular, monopetalous, with the border usually divided into two parts called the upper and lower lip; or irregular and gaping, like the mouth of an animal.
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