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Answer for the clue "Like a human's lower ear ", 6 letters:
lobate

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Word definitions for lobate in dictionaries

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 ...

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 ]

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

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 lobed. 2 Resembling a lobe.

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.