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lobate

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lo·bate  (lbt) also lo·bat·ed (-btd)
adj.
1. Having lobes; lobed.
2. Shaped like a lobe.
3. Having separate toes, each bordered by a weblike lobe. Used of the feet of certain birds.
lobately adv.
lobate
Adjective
with or like lobes
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Adj.1.lobate - having or resembling a lobe or lobes; "a lobate tongue"
lobated
2.lobate - having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other
lobed
compound - composed of more than one part; "compound leaves are composed of several lobes; "compound flower heads"
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In 1899, Taylor clearly laid out the evidence for "great ice-dams" to explain the proglacial ancestors of the Great Lakes, and inferred that the ice lobes occupying the lake basins "were broad lobate masses [that] moved forward with extreme slowness .
J.W. Spencer (1851-1921): his life in Missouri and Georgia, and work ... by Middleton, Gerard V. / Geoscience Canada
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