Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Divided into or having two lobes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or divided into two lobes: as, a bilobate leaf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Divided into two lobes or segments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having two
lobes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having two lobes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Eat your grasshoppers – bonbon bilobate, cert cerus.
Archive 2008-08-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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Eat your grasshoppers – bonbon bilobate, cert cerus.
derek beaulieu on blert Lemon Hound 2008
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His eyes, sapphire blue beneath a square-cut black mane, were on the olive-skinned woman across the small room, who was adjusting the gilded brass breastplates that displayed rather than concealed her swelling bilobate chest.
Conan The Invincible Jordan, Robert 1982
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Figure 193 _D_ shows the embryo much farther advanced, with the two pairs of lobes (_md_, rudimentary mandibles; _d_, rudimentary pad-like organs, seen in a more advanced stage in _E_), and the bilobate tail (_st_).
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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The accompanying representation of the embryo of Squilla shows that it possesses a long, segmented abdomen without appendages, a bilobate tail, six pairs of limbs, and a short heart; the latter only pulsates weakly and slowly.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
reesetee commented on the word bilobate
having two lobes
June 12, 2007