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A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap.

Furnished with lobes or flaps.

The ear, or its lobe. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

(Podophyllum peltatum). Also, the plant itself (popularly called mandrake), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. -- May beetle, May bug (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear…

Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab.

Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiæ.

Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.

The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. [R.] A. Drummond. Le beau monde Etym: [F.], fashionable society. See Beau monde. -- Demi monde. See Demimonde.

A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe.

Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf. Lindley.

A Linnæan order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.

A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.

Consisting of, or having, many lobes.

e; alteration, either in form or qualities. The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument. Bacon.

endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.

The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.

determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy.

The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium.