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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having or resembling a lobe or lobes;
- Example: "a lobate tongue"
[syn: lobate, lobated]

2. having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other;
[syn: lobed, lobate]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lobate \Lo"bate\, Lobated \Lo"ba*ted\, a. [See Lobe.] 1. (Bot.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) (a) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays. (b) Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lobate adj 1: having or resembling a lobe or lobes; "a lobate tongue" [syn: lobate, lobated] 2: having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other [syn: lobed, lobate]