lobed

How To Use lobed In A Sentence

• Another shows how the grebes' lobed feet travel in a nearly circular pattern when they dive underwater, with the toes folded and rotated to decrease water resistance on the backstroke.
• In the midday sun, the allure of a golden-globed Orthodox church was matched only by the three blue spires atop the straight-backed cathedral.
• He gives illustrations of some neolithic axes and hammers, and then proceeds to state that in the opinion of philosophers they are generated in the sky by a fulgureous exhalation (whatever that may look like) conglobed in a cloud by a circumfixed humour, and baked hard, as it were, by intense heat. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• The _third_ and _fourth glumes_ are half-amplexicaul, empty, epaleate, flabelliform, 4-lobed, 7-nerved, shortly awned at the back, villous; the side lobes are acuminate or aristate and the central lobes are shortly awned. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Leaves sometimes distichous, vertically oriented, transversely or subtransversely inserted, but with ventral base succubous and sometimes decurrent, constantly 2-lobed to 0.1-0.6 their length.
• It was one inch long and made of paper-thin bone that globed above empty eyes and tapered at the front to a needle of beak. A Year on the Wing
• The sheets are bilobed about a median furrow, visible in both vertical and horizontal sections, and form straight to gently curved, cross-cutting traces.
• The hypogynous, 5-lobed nectariferous disc considerably exceeds the ovary in volume.
• Canada thistle is identified by shallow lobed leaves with short spines on the margins and a greenish color on both sides, often lighter on the lower side.
• As the cross-section at right shows, the stem has a central core of vascular tissue which is usually lobed.