Definitions
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- adjective having five lobes
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Examples
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An ancient Naxi priest, known as a Dongba, wearing a five-lobed painted hat, approached and asked for a cigarette.
Mystical Art From a 'Lost' World Lawrence Osborne 2011
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Noncompliant tanks have a circular or five-lobed valve and aren't refillable, although they can be retrofitted with a three-lobed valve or swapped for a new tank at a hardware store or other refilling facility.
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Noncompliant tanks have a circular or five-lobed valve; they can be retrofitted with a three-lobed valve or swapped for a new tank at a hardware store or other refilling facility.
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Noncompliant tanks have a circular or five-lobed valve; they can be retrofitted with a three-lobed valve or swapped for a new tank at a hardware store or other refilling facility. —
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Noncompliant tanks have a circular or five-lobed valve and aren't refillable, although they can be retrofitted with a three-lobed valve or swapped for a new tank at a hardware store or other refilling facility.
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Most of us take shallow breaths when we exercise, only filling the upper two lobes of our five-lobed lungs.
Jumpstart Your Metabolism Pam Grout 1996
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The tank next to it held five-lobed objects which had to be livers; but they were small, small.
A Gift From Earth Niven, Larry 1968
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The tank next to it held five-lobed objects which had to be livers; but they were small, small.
A Gift From Earth Niven, Larry 1968
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This forms a dwarf bush, with short, reclining stems, and upright leaves, which are deeply five-lobed.
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Plant twelve feet and upwards in length; leaves deeply five-lobed; fruit about nine inches long, and of an elliptic shape, -- but it is sometimes grown to twice that length, and of an oblong form; surface slightly uneven, by irregular, longitudinal, obtuse ribs, which terminate in a projecting apex at the extremity of the fruit.
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