a. Nat. Hist. [ad. mod.L. lobātus, f. L. lobus LOBE: see -ATE2.] Having or characterized by lobes, lobed.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., III. v. (1765), 178. Lobate, lobed; when they are divided to the Middle into Parts that stand wide from each other, and have their Margins convex.

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1785.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxi. (1794), 290. The leaves … so deeply serrate as to be almost lobate.

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1816.  W. Smith, Strata Ident., 23. The lobate Oyster, or Gryphus.

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1871.  W. A. Leighton, Lichen-flora, 14. Thallus … crustaceous, granulose or lobate.

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1872.  Oliver, Elem. Bot., II. 140. Sweet Mignonette. An herbaceous (garden) annual, with alternate entire or lobate exstipulate leaves.

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1872.  Nicholson, Palæont., 323. Fins not lobate.

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1875.  Huxley, in Encycl. Brit., I. 132/1. The oral and aboral pole, or the oral only, bear lobate appendages.

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1890.  Coues, Field & Gen. Ornithol., II. 195. In the lobate foot, a paddle results not from connecting webs, but from a series of lobes or flaps along the sides of the individual toes.

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  Hence Lobately adv., so as to form lobes.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 616. Substipitate, lobately divided.

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