A surname. / plural of Lipp

A surname.

(paleontology) The principle that due to the incompleteness of the fossil record, the earliest and latest known occurrences of a taxon will almost never represent the ages of the actual earliest and latest organisms belonging to it.

a kind of snail, Cepaea hortensis, very similar to the grove snail, but with a white band at the lip of the shell.

Having a raised lip. / (in combination) Having some specific type of lip.

simple past tense and past participle of lip

(literally) Having the lips pressed tightly together, hence, not speaking. / (idiomatic) Unwilling to divulge information.

plural of white-lipped snail

(in combinations) The state or quality of having a particular number of type of lips.

Indiscreet.