lobed

[lohbd]
adjective
1.
having a lobe or lobes; lobate.
2.
Botany. (of a leaf) having lobes or divisions extending less than halfway to the middle of the base.
Origin:
1780–90; lobe + -ed3

Related forms
mul·ti·lobed, adjective
un·lobed, adjective
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lobed

adjective
having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other 
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Example sentences
Leaves are crowded at the base of the plant and are several times dissected or lobed towards the tips.
The leaves are simple and alternate, and vary considerably in shape, from a heart to palmately lobed to deeply dissected.
The leaves are lobed with spiny margins that extend down the stems as spiny wings.
Margins nearly entire to shallowly lobed and toothed.
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"The whole bank, which is from twenty to forty feet high, is sometimes overlaid with a mass of this kind of foliage, or sandy rupture, for a quarter of a mile on one or both sides, the produce of one spring day. What makes this sand foliage remarkable is its springing into existence thus suddenly. When I see on the one side the inert bank,—for the sun acts on one side first,—and on the other this luxuriant foliage, the creation of an hour, I am affected as if in a peculiar sense I stood in the laboratory of the Artist who made the world and me,—had come to where he was still at work, sporting on this bank, and with excess of energy strewing his fresh designs about. I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body. You find thus in the very sands an anticipation of the vegetable leaf. No wonder that the earth expresses itself outwardly in leaves, it labors with the idea inwardly. The atoms have already learned this law, and are pregnant by it. The overhanging leaf sees here its prototype. Internally, whether in the globe or animal body, it is a moist thick lobe, a word especially applicable to the liver and lungs and the leaves of fat (leibo, labor, lapsus, to flow or slip downward, a lapsing; lobos, globus, lobe, globe; also lap, flap, and many other words); externally, a dry thin leaf, even as the f and v are a pressed and dried b. The radicals of lobe are lb, the soft mass of the b (single-lobed, or B, double-lobed), with the liquid l behind it pressing it forward. In globe, glb, the gutteral g adds to the meaning the capacity of the throat. The feather and wings of birds are still drier and thinner leaves. Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly. The very globe continually transcends and translates itself, and becomes winged in its orbit."
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