a. [f. LOBE + -ED2.] Having a lobe or lobes; lobated. Chiefly Nat. Hist.
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.
1787. trans. Linnæus Fam. Plants, I. 77. Stigma two-lobed.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), III. 781. Leaves . The largest lobes lobed or divided half way down to the mid-rib.
1828. Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., II. 450. Proteus . Body very minute, diversely lobed instantaneously.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 134. Leaves deeply lobed.
1843. Yarrell, Brit. Birds, III. 44. The dilated and lobed membranes of the toes.
1849. Murchison, Siluria, x. 218. This fossil is globular, lobed, branched.
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.
1893. W. H. Hudson, Patagonia, 138. The wings beating rapidly, the long legs and lobed feet sprawling behind.
Comb. 1832. Planting, 116 (L.U.K.). The lobed-leaved, or post oak.