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FOUR-LOBED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does four-lobed mean?
• FOUR-LOBED (adjective)
The adjective FOUR-LOBED has 1 sense:
1. having four lobes
Familiarity information: FOUR-LOBED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having four lobes
Similar:
many-sided; multilateral (having many parts or sides)
Context examples
A plant family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets which includes the mints, thyme, sage, and rosemary.
(Lamiaceae, NCI Thesaurus)
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