Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having gaping liplike parts, as the corolla of some flowers or the shells of certain bivalves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, gaping: noting a bilabiate corolla with the lips widely spread and the throat open, as in the dead-nettle, Lamium.
- In zoology, gaping irregularly, as parts of some zoöphytes and the valves of some shells.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the
semblance of lips parted wide, such as may be observed in certain flowers.
Etymologies
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The whorls of bloom issue from half-globular arrangements of buds and persistent calyces; each flower is an inch long; corolla ringent, or gaping; helmet, or upper division, linear; the seed organs are longer; the calyx tubular, having five minute teeth, being striped and grooved; the whole head, or whorl, is supported by a leafy bract, the leaflets being of a pale green colour, tinted with red.
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Stafford near Dunrobin Castle in Sutherlandshire, in which the usual ringent form of the corolla was replaced by the form called salver-shaped.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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As the upper petal of the Aconite, and the upper lip of fome ringent flowers.
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Thefe flowers have one piftilj and the corolla is irregular — either ringent or per - finite.
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U.S. EPA Approves More S.ringent Thresholds for S.n Joaquin Air District Moby Domestic Violence S.elter Grants Awarded by S.ate Coalition; Musician "Incredibly Happy" to Help Victims S.n Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace Objections to California S.ate Water Board Loopholes for Nuclear Power Plants CA Regulator Reports Prop 17 S.onsor Mercury Insurance Overcharged and Discriminated Against Drivers for 15 Years
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MEMRI: Responses in Arab Press to More S.ringent S.curity Checks at U.S. Airports - For and Against
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U.S. EPA Approves More S.ringent Thresholds for S.n Joaquin Air District
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whichbe commented on the word ringent
Gaping. (from Phrontistery)
May 23, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word ringent
(adj): in botany or zoology, gaping widely, like an open mouth.
January 15, 2009