lobate

American  

[loh-beyt] / ˈloʊ beɪt /

Also lobated

adjective

1. having a lobe lobes; lobed.

2. having the form of a lobe.

3. Ornithology. noting or pertaining to a foot in which the individual toes have membranous flaps along the sides.

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lobate British  

/ ˈləʊbeɪt /

adjective

1. having or resembling lobes

2. (of birds) having separate toes that are each fringed with a weblike lobe

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Other Word Forms

• interlobate adjective
• lobately adverb
• multilobate adjective

Etymology

Origin of lobate

From the New Latin word lobātus, dating back to 1750–60. See lobe, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

These comparable ages suggest that SMRs, like lobate scarps, rank among the Moon's youngest geological features.

From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026

Its lobate scarps are considerably smaller and less spectacular than those on Mercury, but on the Moon we know for sure that as well as being geologically recent, some are active today.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2023

Structures such as lobate cilia are currently too small for 3-D printers to handle, he adds.

From Scientific American • Apr. 10, 2020

Theory suggests such bodies will take on an elongated or lobate form.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2018

The jaws, the uneven lobate disk of the preoperculum and the branchiostegous membrane are naked, the rest of them being scaly.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by Stokes, John Lort