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Lobate

Lobate \Lo"bate\, Lobated \Lo"ba*ted\, a. [See Lobe.]

  1. (Bot.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.

  2. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.

    2. Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lobate

"having lobes," 1760, from Modern Latin lobatus, from lobus (see lobe).\n

Wiktionary
lobate

a. 1 lobed. 2 Resembling a lobe.

WordNet
lobate

  1. adj. having or resembling a lobe or lobes; "a lobate tongue" [syn: lobated]

  2. having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other [syn: lobed]

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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.