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trilobed

American  
[trahy-lohbd] / ˈtraɪˌloʊbd /

adjective

  1. trilobate.


Etymology

Origin of trilobed

First recorded in 1820–30; tri- + lobed

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At a certain season its big, trilobed, hollow-stalked leaves changed from bright green to pale yellow and lingeringly fell, and often before the last disappeared, flower-buds registered the date with almost almanac exactitude.

From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

Post-Pliocene, South America. there are eight molars on each side of each jaw, and the crowns of these are fluted and almost trilobed.

From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson

What all authors have agreed in calling the mentum is very noticeable, being large and broad, and trilobed behind.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

The archenteron gives off two lateral pounchs and thus becomes trilobed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

Upper sectorial with a large, distinctly trilobed blade and a moderately developed inner lobe placed at the anterior extremity of the blade.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

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