Definition of Lobings

1. lobing [n] - See also: lobing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobings

lobeliad
lobeliads
lobelias
lobelike
lobelin
lobeline
lobelines
lobes
lobes of cerebrum
lobes of mammary gland
lobes of thyroid gland
lobi
lobi glandulae mammariae
lobi glandulae thyroideae
lobing
lobings (current term)
lobiped
lobitis
loblollies
loblolly
loblolly bay
loblolly bays
loblolly boy
loblolly pine
lobola
lobomycosis
lobopod
lobopodia
lobopodian
lobopodium

Literary usage of Lobings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"These differ from one another by certain characteristic lobings of the leaves, and these characters have proved, on crossing, to be typical ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Lateral segmentation affects the lamina, producing indentations, lobings or fissuring of its margins. In this way two marked forms of leaf arc produced—(i) ..."

3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"somewhat enlarged ; the other figures natural size. are all sorts of lobings and sinuses, fringes, pegs, and knobs on the lower lip which serve as ..."

4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1901)
"... but in the present instance this has been carried so far in the oblique incisions and lobings, and overlapping of the segments, that the normal form is ..."

5. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"The thallus is of a primitive type, often with simple lobings and therefore, suggestive of relationship with the simpler ..."

6. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1896)
"The curious lobings and foldings of the seed in the Walnut also remind us of the time when the cotyledons were variously lobed and folded so as to occupy ..."

7. Familiar Wild Flowers by Frederick Edward Hulme (1878)
"The leaflets are what is termed botanically entire, that is to say, without any marginal lobings or serrations of any kind, and all, as we have already seen ..."

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