lobate

pronunciation

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

Word Origin

lobate (adj.)
"having lobes," 1760, from Modern Latin lobatus, from lobus (see lobe).

Example

1. Having lobate toes . Used of birds .
2. Uvula the lobate extension of the inner crown base of a chondrichthyan tooth .

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