See Also: ear lobe(medicine)
lobe(dictionary)
Lobe(health)
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ear lobe(dictionary)
Lobe(medicine)
right lobe(medicine)
nervous lobe(medicine)
renal lobe(medicine)
lobe-footed(medicine)

lobe (iou)



lobe noun. LME.
[Late Latin lobus from Greek lobos lobe of the ear or liver, capsule, pod.]
A roundish projecting part, usually one of two or more similar portions into which an object is divided by a fissure; esp. one of the divisions of the liver, lungs, brain, or other organ. LME.
Roche lobe: see ROCHE noun2.
J. Bronowski The main organisation of the brain is in the frontal lobes and the prefrontal lobes.
Botany. A (chiefly rounded) projection or division of a leaf, petal, or other organ of a plant; esp. one extending less than halfway to the centre. Formerly also, a pod, a capsule. L17.
= ear lobe s.v. EAR noun1. E18.
The larger or most important and projecting part of a cam-wheel. M19.
Geology. A great marginal projection from the body of a continental ice sheet. L19.
A portion of the radiation pattern of an aerial which represents a group of directions of stronger radiation and is bounded on each side by directions in which there is minimum radiation. E20.
Calligraphy. A curved projecting part of a letter. M20.
Comb.: lobe-fin a crossopterygian fish; lobe-finned adjective designating a crossopterygian fish.
lobed adjective having a lobe or lobes L18.
lobeless adjective (rare) M19.
lobelike adjective resembling (that of) a lobe M19.