Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having lobes; lobed.
  • adjective Shaped like a lobe.
  • adjective Having separate toes, each bordered by a weblike lobe. Used of the feet of certain birds.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a lobe or lobes; lobated; lobose; lobed; lobulate: as, a lobate leaf; a lobate fin or foot; a lobate rhizopod or ctenophoran.
  • Having the form of a lobe: as, a lobate part or process.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed.
  • adjective Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.
  • adjective Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective lobed.
  • adjective Resembling a lobe.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or resembling a lobe or lobes
  • adjective having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other

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Examples

  • Dr. WATTERS: We know because we have used the very high resolution images obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter cameras to look for a specific kind of land form called a lobate scarp.

    Images Show A Shrinking Moon 2010

  • Dr. WATTERS: We know because we have used the very high resolution images obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter cameras to look for a specific kind of land form called a lobate scarp.

    Images Show A Shrinking Moon 2010

  • Scientists have identified 14 landforms called lobate scarps scattered over the surface of the moon, explained Thomas R. Watters of the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

    The Moon May Be SHRINKING, But Very, Very Slowly 2010

  • Dr. WATTERS: We know because we have used the very high resolution images obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter cameras to look for a specific kind of land form called a lobate scarp.

    Images Show A Shrinking Moon 2010

  • Nor must we forget those water fowls which, instead of palmated feet, have what is called the lobate foot, which means that the digits have broad lobes or flaps on their sides.

    Our Bird Comrades 1896

  • Scientists have identified 14 landforms called lobate scarps scattered over the surface of the moon, explained Thomas R. Watters of the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the

    WISTV - Local News RSS 2010

  • "We estimate these cliffs, called lobate scarps, formed less than a billion years ago, and they could be as young as a hundred million years," said Dr. Thomas Watters of the Center for

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • As a result its brittle crust ruptured and thrust faults (compression) formed distinctive landforms known as lobate scarps.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Scientists have identified 14 landforms called lobate scarps scattered over the surface of the moon, explained Thomas R. Watters of the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the

    Yahoo! News: Top Stories 2010

  • Researchers had first noticed the cliffs, technically called lobate scarps because they are semi-circular like a lobe, in images from the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions.

    Times Leader News 2010

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