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Definition of Lobated

1. Adjective. Having or resembling a lobe or lobes. "A lobate tongue"

Definition of Lobated

1. lobate [adj] - See also: lobate

Medical Definition of Lobated

1. 1. Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf. 2. Having lobes; said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays. Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobated

Literary usage of Lobated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York by New York Academy of Sciences (1828)
"Bill subulate ; edges entire ; face feathered. Toes lobated, lobes scalloped, connecting- membrane rudimentary. ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Surgery by John Ashhurst (1871)
"rounded or oval outline, but is often markedly lobated, the tending through muscular, fibrous, ... or, if it be not lobated, merely traverse its substance. ..."

3. Outlines of Oryctology: An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic by James Parkinson (1833)
"Pedicle short and thick, supporting wide tortuous lobated branches, heaped in a dense mass; small scattered oscula. pyramidale. ..."

4. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society by Royal Society of South Africa (1878)
"The prothorax is smooth, convex, twice as broad as long, and strongly lobated near the eyes. The underside is strongly plicated. ..."

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