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Having rounded, projecting parts
Answer for the clue "Having rounded, projecting parts ", 6 letters:
lobate
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having or resembling a lobe or lobes; "a lobate tongue" [syn: lobated ] having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other [syn: lobed ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 lobed. 2 Resembling a lobe.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lobate \Lo"bate\, Lobated \Lo"ba*ted\, a. [See Lobe .] (Bot.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf. (Zo["o]l.) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays. Furnished ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"having lobes," 1760, from Modern Latin lobatus , from lobus (see lobe ).\n
Usage examples of lobate.
A glowing thread of molten ore wound its way down a lobate scarp into the plain below.
But before he could confess anything, the tractor edged around the base of a lobate scarp that towered more than a mile into the airless sky.
Here and there are small craters with slumped rims surrounded by lobate aprons of debris, clear evidence of impacts that temporarily melted the ice-saturated ground.
It splashed down onto the white sheet of ice, steaming even though it froze within seconds, making a white lobate leaf on top of the ice already there.