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lobed

[ lohbd ]

adjective

  1. having a lobe or lobes; lobate.
  2. Botany. (of a leaf ) having lobes or divisions extending less than halfway to the middle of the base.


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Other Words From

  • multi·lobed adjective
  • un·lobed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lobed1

First recorded in 1780–90; lobe + -ed 3
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Example Sentences

By the way, if you want to see a real recording of this phenomenon, albeit for a three-lobed fidget spinner, check out this video from reader Danny Sleator.

With their three-lobed brains, they are “as far from a vertebrate as you could possibly ever get,” he says.

It would be unusual for a large object like Arrokoth, particularly with its two-lobed structure, to have formed from a sequence of collisions.

These plants catch their prey in a trap that snaps shut as soon as insects touch trigger hairs on the inner side of their double-lobed leaves.

Her eyes were quicker than his, too, and now she pointed to a snowy blossom with a deeply lobed leaf.

The shell is small and globular, with a wide gape at both ends, and consists of two three-lobed valves with concentric furrows.

It is a biennial plant, with fleshy lobed wavy leaves that are covered with bluish bloom, and a fleshy cylindrical root.

Geraniace—Herbs with stipuled, lobed leaves, and showy regular flowers.

The abdomen, strongly lobed at the sides, is composed of eight rings, and is provided with sixteen spiracles.

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