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Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form; as:

Lobiped.

Having lobes; lobate.

A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.

A small lobe; a lobule.

A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for…

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.

A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

Bilobate.

To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass. Then founded, then conglobed Like things to like. Milton.

A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap. Flobert rifle, a rifle adapted to the use of floberts.

Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.

Shaped like a globe.

A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

Trollius (T. Europæus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.

To infix, as in a globe; to fix or secure firmly. [Obs.] Milton.

Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.

Having four lobes; as, a quadrilobate leaf.

Same as Quinquelobate.