Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a lobe or lobes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a lobe or lobes; lobate; lobose; specifically, in botany, said of a leaf when the division extends not more than half-way to the middle, and either the sinuses or lobes are rounded; in entomology, having a single lobe or lobe-like projection. Sometimes used, like
lobate , to indicate a division into two or more lobes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having lobes; lobate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
lobes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other
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Examples
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Interestingly, the "lobed" configuration has been observed -- and videotaped -- elsewhere.
Archive 2006-11-01 Mac 2006
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His babies are weeks away from bulking up and setting the bizarre clusters of mind-altering flower buds, but even in youth the lobed leaves, slender and saw-toothed, are distinctive, iconic, ominous.
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010
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It worked like magic, as he became wingnuttia's most prominent loudmouth leader in the media — his talk show at its peak pulling in close to 15 million lemming-lobed listeners per week.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Poppy leaves are deeply lobed, which makes them a difficult shape to reproduce, not like an aspen leaf.
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It worked like magic, as he became wingnuttia's most prominent loudmouth leader in the media — his talk show at its peak pulling in close to 15 million lemming-lobed listeners per week.
Sacked! 2009
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Poppy leaves are deeply lobed, which makes them a difficult shape to reproduce, not like an aspen leaf.
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West has served on the school board since 1997, when he defeated 89-year-old incumbent Doris Pesce by promising to enforce dress codes and refer repeat disciplinary cases to the three-lobed burning eye.
Lovecraft in the Classroom : The Lovecraft News Network 2009
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There is an heirloom French pumpkin called a Cinderella Carriage pumpkin that is lobed and looks like Cinderella's coach, and has bright red and orange flesh (Rouge Vif d'Etampes).
Cheryl Carlesimo: October and Pumpkins Cheryl Carlesimo 2010
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West has served on the school board since 1997, when he defeated 89-year-old incumbent Doris Pesce by promising to enforce dress codes and refer repeat disciplinary cases to the three-lobed burning eye.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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There is an heirloom French pumpkin called a Cinderella Carriage pumpkin that is lobed and looks like Cinderella's coach, and has bright red and orange flesh (Rouge Vif d'Etampes).
Cheryl Carlesimo: October and Pumpkins Cheryl Carlesimo 2010
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