a. [f. LOBE + -ED2.] Having a lobe or lobes; lobated. Chiefly Nat. Hist.

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  In Bot. applied to a leaf in which the division extends not more than half-way from the margin to the center and the segments or the sinuses are rounded.

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1787.  trans. Linnæus’ Fam. Plants, I. 77. Stigma two-lobed.

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1796.  Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), III. 781. Leaves…. The largest lobes lobed or divided half way down to the mid-rib.

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1828.  Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., II. 450. Proteus…. Body very minute,… diversely lobed instantaneously.

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 134. Leaves … deeply lobed.

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1843.  Yarrell, Brit. Birds, III. 44. The dilated and lobed membranes of the toes.

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1849.  Murchison, Siluria, x. 218. This fossil … is globular, lobed, branched.

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1880.  Gray, Struct. Bot., VI. v. 245. The calyx or corolla … is said to be … lobed, a general term for any considerable separation beyond toothing.

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1893.  W. H. Hudson, Patagonia, 138. The wings beating rapidly, the long legs and lobed feet sprawling behind.

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  Comb.  1832.  Planting, 116 (L.U.K.). The lobed-leaved, or post oak.

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