trilobed

[ trahy-lohbd ]

adjective

1. trilobate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trilobed¹

First recorded in 1820–30; tri- + lobed

Example Sentences

The remarkable tripartite mentum he thinks should not be compared with the bipartite mentum of Leptinus, and calls attention to the fact that in Ancistrona in Mallophaga it is also trilobed.

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The archenteron gives off two lateral pounchs and thus becomes trilobed.

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Upper sectorial with a large, distinctly trilobed blade and a moderately developed inner lobe placed at the anterior extremity of the blade.

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Post-Pliocene, South America. there are eight molars on each side of each jaw, and the crowns of these are fluted and almost trilobed.

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At a certain season its big, trilobed, hollow-stalked leaves changed from bright green to pale yellow and lingeringly fell, and often before the last disappeared, flower-buds registered the date with almost almanac exactitude.

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