lobed

American  

[lohbd] / loʊbd /

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 Word Forms

• multilobed adjective
• unlobed adjective

Etymology

Origin of lobed

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

Example Sentences

Seven species of the coral found in Florida’s reef — elkhorn, staghorn, boulder star, mountainous star, lobed star, rough cactus and pillar — are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Creamy white cone-shaped flower clusters form on old wood and are set off by deep green, lobed oaklike foliage.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2023

Arrokoth’s lobed shape fits a model suggesting planetesimals formed when clouds of pebbles in the gassy disk collapsed to form city-size lumps; those might then have merged with others into progressively larger structures.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 7, 2021

While it shared the lobed swimming paddles of its larger relative, its broad head carapace — Mr. Moysiuk calls it “spaceship-shaped” — took up half its body length.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2021

Once, I started with terror at a ratcheting upon my foot, to find a horseshoe crab trundling past in search of a pool, its saber-tail and lobed armor grotesque in the extreme.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson