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An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes. Owen.

ather occurring late in autumn. See under Summer. -- Indian tobacco (Bot.), a species of Lobelia. See Lobelia. -- Indian turnip (Bot.), an American plant of the genus Arisæma. A. triphyllum has a wrinkled farinaceous root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin.…

Unequally lobed; cut into lobes of different shapes or sizes.

In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation.

Between lobes; as, the interlobar notch of the liver; the interlobar ducts of a gland.

or noting, equal angles. Isogonic lines (Magnetism), lines traced on the surface of the globe, or upon a chart, connecting places at which the deviation of the magnetic needle from the meridian or true north is the same.

upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe. Scudamore.

Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed.

emilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.

e acting by rule. Burke. And sovereign Law, that state's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.

of the mental powers. [R.] Ball lightning, a rare form of lightning sometimes seen as a globe of fire moving from the clouds to the earth. -- Chain lightning, lightning in angular, zigzag, or forked flashes. -- Heat lightning, more or less vivid and extensive flashes of electric light, without thunder, seen near the…

A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. See Parapodium.

The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The doctrine or science of the origin of the minerals composing the globe.

A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.

Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.

As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.

A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. Lobule of the ear. (Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.

The globeflower (Trollius).