lobed

American  

[lohbd] / loʊbd /

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.

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Other Word Forms

• multilobed adjective
• unlobed adjective

Etymology

Origin of lobed

First recorded in 1780–90; lobe + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Seven species of the coral found in Florida’s reef — elkhorn, staghorn, boulder star, mountainous star, lobed star, rough cactus and pillar — are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Foliose species have lobed, leaflike bodies, or thalli; you can see both their upper and lower surfaces, which are different colors.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2021

Arrokoth’s lobed shape fits a model suggesting planetesimals formed when clouds of pebbles in the gassy disk collapsed to form city-size lumps; those might then have merged with others into progressively larger structures.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 7, 2021

Most important was his insistence, against Mr. Saarinen’s wishes, that the lobed roof be divided into four discrete vaults, instead of being formed as a single 55,000-square-foot expanse of concrete, without joints.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2017

Think what Bill Gates, say, would pay for some tendriled, purply lobed piece of Venusian exotica to put in a pot in his greenhouse.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson