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Lobule
//ˈlɒb.juːl// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Diminutive of lobe:; A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
- 2 a small lobe or subdivision of a lobe wordnet
- 3 Diminutive of lobe:; In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac.
"The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes."
- 4 Diminutive of lobe:; A tongue-like structure opposite the scutellum in grasses; the epiblast.
Etymology
From lobe + -ule (diminutive suffix).
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