Definitions
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- adjective having four lobes
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Examples
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Cetaceans possess large, complex four-lobed brains, much larger brains in comparison to our smaller human three-lobed brains, with more convolutions on the neo-cortex area than our own.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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Cetaceans possess large, complex four-lobed brains, much larger brains in comparison to our smaller human three-lobed brains, with more convolutions on the neo-cortex area than our own.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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Cetaceans possess large, complex four-lobed brains, much larger brains in comparison to our smaller human three-lobed brains, with more convolutions on the neo-cortex area than our own.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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Cetaceans possess large, complex four-lobed brains, much larger brains in comparison to our smaller human three-lobed brains, with more convolutions on the neo-cortex area than our own.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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The name Popiya came to me along with an image of a small, white, four-lobed flower, which represented her deep, gentle nature.
When Animals Speak Penelope Smith 2009
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Given the four-lobed construction of Ferengi brains, she could not sense anything from them, which always vexed her.
Doors Into Chaos Robert Greenberger 2001
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I did my best to introduce her to the exciting world of four-lobed grains, but she kept getting that glassy look in her eyes.
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The Spindle Tree has a green bark, and glossy leaves, producing only small greenish flowers: whilst the pendulous ornaments so brilliantly borne in autumn are four-lobed capsules of a pale red hue, which open out and disclose ruddy orange-coloured seeds wrapped in a scarlet arillus.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Between the calyx and the corolla were three or four spathulate, hairy, bract-like organs; the corolla and stamens were unchanged; but in place of the usual four-lobed ovary there was a single carpel with a basilar style, terminated by a forked stigma.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Instead of the pouch there is formed sometimes in the plant last mentioned a supplementary four-lobed lamina, the four lobes being in two different planes, and diverging from the midrib, so that the section would resemble [Symbol: Sideways X], the point of intersection of the x representing the position of the midrib.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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