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Nearly globular.

Situated under, or at the bases of, the lobules of the liver.

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.

Having the gills situated upon the neck; -- said of certain mollusks.

Having three lobes.

The state of being trilobate.

Same as Trilobate.

An extinct order of arthropods comprising the trilobites.

Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.

Of, pertaining to or containing, trilobites; as, trilobitic rocks.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers.

Consisting of a single lobe.

The dried twigs of a Syrian tree (Balsamodendron Gileadense). U. S. Disp.

A larval entozoön in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hy datid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts o…

One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.

a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. Quain.

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

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.]

(Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.

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.