Definitions
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- adjective having many lobes
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Examples
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The tents were many-lobed, and flaps were generally left open.
Destiny's Road Niven, Larry 1997
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He lays much stress upon likeness of shape and of relative size, comparing, for instance, the large multilobate liver of the human foetus with the many-lobed liver of lower Vertebrates and of Invertebrates.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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The many-lobed but united leaves, at the root five or six inches long, are irregularly beautiful.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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