Its seemingly two-lobed head had a pair of slender tentacles and may have borne eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
That only works with a bell-shaped electorate, but more and more people are seeing that the US electorate right now is two-lobed, with a dip in the center. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Penn Again] Reference
One is a two-lobed pear-shaped kind of thing with short dense thick white prickers; the other is a ridged round morningstar-head-shaped creature with clusters of long red prickers. From Wordnik.com. [john dillinger is alive and well and living in--] Reference
They are of a light purple colour, each flower ½in. across, corolla prettily cupped, segments two-lobed, greenish white at bases, tube long and cylindrical, calyx about half length of tube, teeth rather long and of a dark brown colour. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The faster the ribbons roll, the more they lose their circular shape, eventually assuming a two-lobed "peanut" shape. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Mimas resonance, the particle orbits are changed from circles to ellipses that form a two-lobed pattern rotating with Mimas. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] 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
What connection there should be between the single cotyledon of the seed and the peculiar character and growth of the endogenous plant, its hard and shining outside surface, with no bark and no successive layers of wood, and on the other hand between a two-lobed constitution of the seed, and a bark, a pith, and a growth by successive outside layers, is a profound mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Aboriginal America] Reference
A small lamina, but this latter, in place of being nearly flat, is pinched up in the centre from back to front, and surmounted by a two-lobed anther, so that the general appearance of the whole structure is that of a central anther, supported at the base on each side by two concave leaf-lobes, or it might be compared with a three-lobed leaf, the terminal lobe represented by the anther. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
"The apex of the carina is expanded into a two-lobed plain petal, the lobes of which are emarginate. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
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