Lobule

//ˈlɒb.juːl// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Diminutive of lobe:; A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
  2. 2
    a small lobe or subdivision of a lobe wordnet
  3. 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. 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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