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Having three lobes. Three-lobed leaf (Bot.), a leaf divided into three parts, the sinuses extending not more than half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded.

Same as Trilobate.

One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.

Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

Having acute lobes, as some leaves.

An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

ingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.

tion for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a globe or sphere. -- Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye. -- For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence, reflection, ref…

A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

hical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.

Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid.

An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram.

first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

An angular or ear-shaped lobe.

Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves.