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era, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe.

One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.

Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe. Cudworth. The grand terraqueous spectacle From center to circumference unveiled. Wordsworth.

Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. "The dark terrestrial ball." Addison.

m Canada. -- Cotton thistle, Onopordon Acanthium. -- Fuller's thistle, the teasel. -- Globe thistle, Melon thistle, etc. See under Globe, Melon, etc. -- Pine thistle, Atractylis gummifera, a native of the Mediterranean region. A vicid gum resin flows from the involucre. -- Scotch thistle, either the cotton thistle…

large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.

A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.

follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens. Cowper. You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. T. Burnet. I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe. What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought. Pope.

Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.

Having three lobes.

vonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.

Divided nearly to the base into three segments or lobes.

d fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. Troll flower. (Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a).

An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.

eaf (Bot.), an American perennial herb (Dyphylleia cymosa), having very large peltate and lobed radical leaves. -- Umbrella shell. (Zoöl.) See Umbrella, 3. -- Umbrella tree (Bot.), a kind of magnolia (M. Umbrella) with the large leaves arranged in umbrellalike clusters at the ends of the branches. It is a native of P…

Unlike. [Obs.] Not unconform to other shining globes. Milton.

Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire.

dsome. Shak. I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. Woodward.

Consisting of a single lobe.