I did my best to introduce her to the exciting world of four-lobed grains, but she kept getting that glassy look in her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
The name Popiya came to me along with an image of a small, white, four-lobed flower, which represented her deep, gentle nature. From Wordnik.com. [When Animals Speak] Reference
Between the calyx and the corolla were three or four spathulate, hairy, bract-like organs; the corolla and stamens were unchanged; but in place of the usual four-lobed ovary there was a single carpel with a basilar style, terminated by a forked stigma. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The Spindle Tree has a green bark, and glossy leaves, producing only small greenish flowers: whilst the pendulous ornaments so brilliantly borne in autumn are four-lobed capsules of a pale red hue, which open out and disclose ruddy orange-coloured seeds wrapped in a scarlet arillus. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The labium in Japyx is four-lobed and bears a small two-jointed palpus. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Pistillate flowers bracted with a three to five, normally four-lobed calyx and sometimes with petals. From Wordnik.com. [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference
Next to the guilloche border is a large blue-gray mosaic medallion, enclosing a four-lobed pattern known as a quatrefoil. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
A four-lobed Airy pattern results when the focus is set at the compromise position between the sagittal and tangential extremes. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The flowers have a tubular base to the corolla 6-10 mm long with an open four-lobed apex 5-8 mm across, usually lilac to mauve, occasionally white. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
The calyx may be five - or four-sepaled; the corolla, five - or four-lobed; the stamens may be two, four, four with a rudimentary fifth, or five with the two anterior ones longer than the other three!. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
In fact, almost invariably, the four-lobed nut parts in the middle, forming two of the more common two-lobed nuts, only distinguishable by the flatness of their inner sides from those that grew separately. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852] Reference
At the end of that series, the divinely-powered Trinitarians brought her into the restored timeline and made her human -- but presumably with the "four-lobed mutant brain" which was part of the android's original cover story. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Resources] Reference
Sometimes, as we have mentioned, a nut exhibits three lobes; let the reader imagine the end of one of the marrows cleft in two, and he will have an idea of the three-lobed nut; and if he imagines two more marrows placed side by side, and compressed with and on the top of the former two, he will then have an idea of the four-lobed nut. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852] Reference
His people’s four-lobed brains were resistant to most forms of telepathy, and negotiation skills continued to be taught to Ferengi youngsters at an age when most other humanoid babies were only learning to say their first words. From Wordnik.com. [THE WAR OF THE PROPHETS] Reference
Seed large, two to four-lobed, cotyledons corrugated, oily, without endosperm. From Wordnik.com. [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference
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