lobe
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ləʊb/
lobe (plural lobes)
- Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
- A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 19,
- He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors.
- (anatomy) A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung.
- (figure skating) A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.
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