A low-growing shrub with silvery-green three-lobed leaves and milky sap. From Wordnik.com. [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference
Hepatica has a three-lobed leaf that supposedly bears a resemblance to the liver. From Wordnik.com. [Take the Design Challenge! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The acute bractlets are three-lobed, halberd-shaped, sparingly cut-toothed on one side. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference
The distinctive thing about them, the one that gives them their name, is their three-lobed form. From Wordnik.com. [New Race] Reference
LX THE BANNER SHAPED like a three-lobed leaf hangs limply in the still air outside the neat but small cottage. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Engineer]
But logic dictates she is the robed figure in the middle of the stage under a three-lobed headdress, best summed up as papal via tribal. From Wordnik.com. [Fever Ray; Zola Jesus] Reference
Each flower tends to have two yellowish green stigmatic lobes but three-lobed stigmas may be found and one case of a 4-lobed stigma was observed. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
The three-lobed lily or fleu-de-lis, like the shamrock, one stood for the Triple Goddess's three yonis, which is why the lily was sacred to the trune Queen of Heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Noncompliant tanks have a circular or five-lobed valve; they can be retrofitted with a three-lobed valve or swapped for a new tank at a hardware store or other refilling facility. From Wordnik.com. [The soon-to-be great outdoors] Reference
Her name descended from the pre-Roman Uni, a Triple Goddess represented by the three-lobed lily or fleur-de-lis, her name stemming from the Sanskrit yoni, source of the Uni-verse. From Wordnik.com. [Lily] Reference
Noncompliant tanks have a circular or five-lobed valve; they can be retrofitted with a three-lobed valve or swapped for a new tank at a hardware store or other refilling facility. —. From Wordnik.com. [The soon-to-be great outdoors] Reference
On the other side of the Thorn-Wall, she saw that the branches on this side, besides sporting thorns and little leaves, were ablaze with palm-sized, three-lobed, flat, vermilion flowers. From Wordnik.com. [If I Pay Thee Not In Gold]
The three-lobed hop leaves twining around one of the trees gave her another idea, but she decided to use the powdered dry hops she had with her, since the conelike fruit would not mature until later. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
The leaves are nearly round in outline, sub-peltate, five, but sometimes only three-lobed; lobes entire, sometimes notched, smooth and glaucous; the leaf-stalks are long and bent, and act as tendrils. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
West has served on the school board since 1997, when he defeated 89-year-old incumbent Doris Pesce by promising to enforce dress codes and refer repeat disciplinary cases to the three-lobed burning eye. From Wordnik.com. [Lovecraft in the Classroom : The Lovecraft News Network] Reference
Noncompliant tanks have a circular or five-lobed valve and aren't refillable, although they can be retrofitted with a three-lobed valve or swapped for a new tank at a hardware store or other refilling facility. From Wordnik.com. [Stay safe when using gas grills] Reference
Soon after the flowers the leaves begin to appear, unfolding like many of the anemones, each one springing from the root only; they also are of a peculiar colour and shape, being three-lobed and finely notched. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The awns are replaced by curiously shaped appendices, which are three-lobed. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
The three-lobed trivets can be used individually and fit together to support a larger dish. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
Handsome delicate hardy grape-like vines with mostly three-lobed blotched leaves and bluish berries. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
'Ursula' (basket/trailer) Deeply cut, three-lobed lime-yellow leaves with chartreuse shading at centre (1985, Fibrex). From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It is a fact that the Bohemian manner of illumination, with its three-lobed and vari-coloured foliages, became the fashion in every. From Wordnik.com. [Illuminated Manuscripts] Reference
'Silver Ferny' (rockeries/troughs) Tiny leaves on a very bushy compact plant with small, three-lobed leaves in grey-green and cream (provenance unknown). From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I found a red Passion flower, with three-lobed leaves, the lobes rounded: it was twining round the trunk of a gum tree, and rooted in a light sandy alluvial soil. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
In the case of the trillium the fruit is a three-lobed reddish berry, but one has to search for it as diligently as Diogenes did for an honest man before he finds it. From Wordnik.com. [Some Spring Days in Iowa] Reference
Star-shaped white flowers with six petals, each of which has a green stripe along the middle of its underside, bloom in May and June, followed by a three-lobed green seed capsule. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Citing as an example the use of blue liverwort, Hepatica nobilis , once cultivated as a liver tonic because its three-lobed leaf form mirrored the shape of the liver, he says, It was absolute rubbish. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
My new favorite mechanic and the three-lobed burning eye comes home. From Wordnik.com. [random catchup] Reference
(wallflower) was dilated into a kind of projecting lobe on either side of the true apex of the leaf, thus rendering it in appearance three-lobed. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
05:14 pm: my new favorite mechanic and the three-lobed burning eye comes home - 2 comments. From Wordnik.com. [December 2002] Reference
Hickory are three-lobed. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A three-lobed apex, as shown in Fig. 4. From Wordnik.com. [The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300] Reference
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