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Labiate vs Laniate - What's the difference?

labiate | laniate |

As verbs the difference between labiate and laniate

is that labiate is to labialize while laniate is (dated|formal) to tear into pieces.

As an adjective labiate

is having lips or liplike parts.

As a noun labiate

is (botany) a plant of the mint family (labiatae).

labiate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having lips or liplike parts.
  • (botany, of flowers such as the snapdragon) Having the corolla divided into two liplike parts.
  • (botany) of, or belonging to the mint family (Labiatae, now Lamiaceae).

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) A plant of the mint family (Labiatae)

    • Verb

    (labiat)
  • To labialize.
    • (Brewer)
    ----

    laniate

    English

    Verb

    (laniat)
  • (dated, formal) To tear into pieces.
    • (Webster 1913) ----