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adj. - Having or resembling a lobe or lobes adj. - Having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other.

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Usage examples (36)
  • A lobate tongue
  • This image of an area, Deuteronilus Mensae, shows high mesas surrounded by buildups called lobate debris aprons.
  • New photographs from LRO show features known as lobate scarps, which are cliff-like formations where the surface of the moon has pushed up against itself.
  • Researchers had first noticed the cliffs, technically called lobate scarps because they are semi-circular like a lobe, in images from the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions.
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