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lobed

(lōbd)

adj.

Having a lobe or lobes: lobed leaves.

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lobed

(loʊbd)

adj.

1. having a lobe or lobes; lobate.

2. (of a leaf) having lobes or divisions extending less than halfway to the middle of the base.

[1780–90]

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Adj.

lobed - having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other

lobate

compound - composed of more than one part; "compound leaves are composed of several lobes; "compound flower heads"

Translations

lobed

adj → gelappt

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As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; or you are reminded of coral, of leopard's paws or birds' feet, of brains or lungs or bowels, and excrements of all kinds.

(single lobed, or B, double lobed), with the liquid l behind it pressing it forward.

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THE red oak, Quercus rubra has oak-shaped, lobed leaves but these are somewhat larger than the common oak's and in the autumn produce one of the most fabulous displays of autumn colour.

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Experiments carried out at the National Center for Physical Acoustics in Oxford, Miss., and the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt in West Germany show that such a bubble, instead of remaining spherical, shifts back and forth between a spherical shape and one resembling a triangle, a cube or some other lobed figure.

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ACER japonicum "Aconitifolium" has gorgeous, deeply-toothed lobed leaves which look good throughout spring and summer and then turn bright crimson in autumn.

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It has a thick bristly stem and forms a rosette of jagged, lobed leaves in the first year before sending up a flower spike in the second year.

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| GROUND ELDER THIS rampant weed spreads quickly between cultivated plants, forming clumps of green, lobed leaves and heads of creamy white flowers in summer.