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Example sentences for "lobes"

Lexicographically close words:
lobbyists; lobe; lobed; lobelia; loben; lobis; loblolly; lobs; lobscouse; lobster
  1. The groove between the postero-inferior lobes is wider.

  2. The muzzle, flippers, and tail lobes were intensely black.

  3. Distance between the tips of the lobes of the caudal fin .

  4. What the author means by a jungle vine I do not exactly know, but conjecture that it may be one of the Bignoniaceae, the woody climbing species of which have in general their stem divided into lobes arranged in a quadrangular manner.

  5. Rudraksha beads are valued according to the number of lobes (or faces, as they are called), which are ordinarily five in number.

  6. A bead with six lobes is said to be very good, and one with two lobes, called Gauri Sankara rudraksha, is specially valued.

  7. In the British Adoxa the uppermost flower generally has two calyx-lobes with the other organs tetramerous, while the surrounding flowers generally have three calyx-lobes with the other organs pentamerous.

  8. Has he enormous zygomae, ear-lobes attached to his cheek?

  9. These narrow lateral lobes heighten the abnormal aspect of the whole spike.

  10. The two lateral lobes are narrower, often linear and extended into a smaller or longer awn.

  11. Sometimes the peltate leaves are not at all orbicular, but are elongated, oblong or elliptic, and with only the lobes [669] at the base united.

  12. These lateral lobes are to be regarded, from the morphologic point of view, as differentiated parts of the blade of the leaf.

  13. I have already mentioned its small corolla, surpassed by the lobes of the calyx and its capacity of self-fertilization.

  14. This connation of the basal lobes is universally considered as a good and normal specific character.

  15. In the first leaves the lobes are so broad as to touch one another along a large part of their margins, but in organs formed later this contact gradually diminishes and the typical leaves have the lobes widely separated.

  16. The two lateral lobes are narrower, sometimes linear, and are often prolonged into an awn, which is generally turned away from the center of the spike.

  17. The first leaves are smaller, with more rounded lobes, the subsequent leaves attain a larger size, and their lobes slightly change their forms.

  18. Now it is easily understood that the contact or the separation of the lobes must play a part in the construction of the ascidia, as soon as the margins grow together.

  19. The sugar maple has its three lobes separated by wide, deep clefts, and its margins are irregularly wavy.

  20. Its leaves have rounded margin lobes which do not end in sharp points, as many of the lobes of oak leaves do.

  21. The three lobes are cut with jagged points into an uneven margin.

  22. The slender lobes are strengthened by the branching veins, each of which ends in a spiny point.

  23. They are larger, and wider, however, and have rounded lobes at the ends of the side veins, making a very regular wavy margin, compared with that of most oak leaves.

  24. All of the oaks whose leaves have pointed, spiny lobes on their margin belong to the Black Oak Group.

  25. The red maple has two shallow clefts, V-shaped, at the top, and the lobes are pointed and triangular.

  26. The blades are thick, lustrous above, and woolly lined, the finger lobes irregular, and two opposite, deep sinuses near the middle of the leaf cut it almost in two!

  27. A narrow, deep fissure divides the leaf in thirds, and two side clefts divide the lower lobes in two unequal halves.

  28. Margins of these lobes are wavy, never saw-toothed, like those of the silver maple.

  29. They are firm, and broad, with five pointed lobes between wide fissures that reach half-way to the stem.

  30. Lining of leaves pale, not downy; lobes finger-like.

  31. They are rarely six inches long, and the side lobes sometimes measure five inches from tip to tip.

  32. Its leaves vary greatly in the depth of their marginal clefts, but in general they are oval in outline, and their lobes and sinuses are triangular.

  33. Now these three lobes may be easily distinguished in the maxilla of Lepisma.

  34. Cup of fruit fringed; apex of lobes of leaves generally rounded; trees of lowland.

  35. Cup of fruit not fringed; apex of lobes of leaves generally acute; trees of swamps in the extreme southwestern counties of Indiana.

  36. The dividing line is very irregular, and several elongated lobes extended farther east than indicated by the map.

  37. Leaves (at least the lower surfaces) and petioles densely tomentose; calyx lobes densely tomentose on both sides 3 M.

  38. Leaves and petioles glabrous or only slightly pubescent; calyx tube and outside of calyx lobes glabrous or only slightly pubescent.

  39. Leaves lobed to about the middle, the lateral lobes broadest at the base; cup saucer-shaped; nut about 1.

  40. Plastral lobes become freely movable upon one another and upon the carapace by the end of the fourth year (plastral length approximately 70 mm.

  41. Both lobes of the plastron or only the buttresses of the hind lobe may articulate with the carapace.

  42. The fifth peripheral bone, constituting the lowest point of the carapace, has a medial projection that acts as a pivoting point for both lobes of the plastron; the roughened anterior corners of the hind lobe articulate with these processes.

  43. They are firmly joined by bony processes; the interdigitating nature of this articulation contrasts with its homologue in the adult, the point where the roughened corners of the forelobes and hind lobes meet.

  44. Later the embryo becomes indented above and forms two lobes (Q), which are the beginnings of the cotyledons.

  45. When ripe, if brought into water, the antheridium bursts at the top into a number of irregular lobes that curl back and allow the mass of sperm cells to escape.

  46. The outline of the leaves varies much in different plants and in different parts of the same plant, being sometimes almost entire, sometimes divided into lobes almost to the midrib, and between these extremes all gradations are found.

  47. This stretching and elongating of the lobes of their ears formerly had a religious significance that is now being forgotten.

  48. All images of Gautama represent him with ear-lobes touching the shoulders, as a symbol of perfection.

  49. These always choose enclosed organs, like the eye-ball, the lobes of the brain, the heart, or the connective tissue.

  50. Some have been found in the eye-ball, in the lobes of the brain, in the heart, or in the muscles.

  51. Cysticerci have been found in the interior of the lobes of the brain, in the eye-ball, in the heart, and in the substance of the bones, as 93 well as in the spinal marrow.

  52. Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of the pteropod mollusks.

  53. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

  54. Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.

  55. In the long-styled form the apex of the stigma stands just beneath the bases of the hairy lobes of the corolla; whilst the summits of the anthers are seated about halfway down the tube.

  56. The mucous râle was evident in the upper part of both lungs, while the inferior lobes were dull to the ear, and on percussion.

  57. The middle and inferior lobes contained several hard, indurated bodies, progressing to a state of softening, and in separating a portion of the latter lobe, it was found to sink in water.

  58. Both lobes were so completely adherent to each other, from inflammatory action, as to form a continuous sac, containing the above fluid.

  59. There are several varieties of this weed; on some the flower is white, on others the five, flaring, sharp-pointed lobes are stained with lavender and magenta.

  60. The two round lobes are at the back of the foot, the other end points in the direction the deer has taken.

  61. The leaves usually suggest three lobes but are mostly undivided.

  62. In Limulus these organs consist each of four horizontal lobes lying on the coxal margin of the second, third, fourth, and fifth prosomatic limbs, the four lobes being connected to one another by a transverse piece or stem (fig.

  63. Its four transverse lobes or outgrowths corresponding to the four coxae.

  64. The still closed lobes of a young leaf of Dionaea projected at right angles to the petiole, and were in the act of slowly rising.

  65. It should be premised that the leaves at an early stage of their development have the two lobes pressed closely together.

  66. Many organs, when touched, bend in one fixed direction, such as the stamens of Berberis, the lobes of Dionaea, etc.

  67. Finally, to ascertain whether the lobes independently of the petiole oscillated, the petiole of an old leaf was cemented close to the blade with shellac to the top of a little stick driven into the soil.

  68. We have strictly analogous cases with Drosera, Dionaea and Pinguicula, with which plants a too powerful stimulus does not excite the tentacles to become incurved, or the lobes to close, or the margin to be folded inwards.

  69. Another full-grown leaf had a filament attached externally along one side of the midrib and parallel to it, so that the filament would move if the lobes closed.

  70. Dionoea muscipula: closure of the lobes and circumnutation of a full-grown leaf, whilst absorbing an infusion of raw meat, traced in darkness, from 7.

  71. The previous observations relate to the movements of the whole leaf, but the lobes move independently of the petiole, and [page 242] seem to be continually opening and shutting to a very small extent.

  72. It is sometimes stated in botanical works that the lobes close or sleep at night; but this is an error.

  73. On the following morning the lobes were closing more quickly, and by 5 P.

  74. The leaf was occasionally observed for the next four days, but was kept in rather too cool a place; nevertheless, it continued to circumnutate to a small extent, and the lobes remained closed.

  75. To test the statement, very long glass filaments were fixed inside the two lobes of three leaves, and the distances between their tips were measured in the middle of the day and at night; but no difference could be detected.

  76. The antennary lobes consist of a network of fine fibres enclosing ganglion cells, and surrounded by a layer of the same.

  77. The vesiculæ seminales are simple, rounded lobes in the pupa (fig.

  78. Leaves: Arranged in threes, compounded of various shaped leaflets, the lobes pointed or rounded, dark above, paler below.

  79. An unusual characteristic in one of the mint tribe is that the five sharp lobes of its bell-shaped calyx, and the five rounded, spreading lobes of the corolla, are of equal length, hence its Greek name signifying an equal flower.

  80. The Greek generic name, meaning lion's tooth, refers to the shape of the lobes of the narrowly oblong leaves in a tuft at the base.

  81. Corolla funnel form, its four lobes spreading, rounded, fringed around ends, but scarcely on sides.

  82. The SHARP-LOBED LIVER-LEAF (Hepatica acuta) differs chiefly from the preceding in having the ends of the lobes of its leaves and the tips of the three leaflets that form its involucre quite sharply pointed.

  83. But when the anthers are mature, the two lobes of the still immature stigma are pressed together, and cannot be fertilized.

  84. The lateral lobes lie in contact with the side of the larynx up to the middle of the thyreoid cartilage, and with the sides of the first five or six rings of the trachea.

  85. The thyreoid gland consists of two lateral lobes connected by an isthmus.

  86. The cortical centres for vision lie on the median surfaces of the occipital lobes in the neighbourhood of the calcarine fissure.

  87. The para-thyreoid glands--usually two on each side--lie in the external capsule along the posterior edge of the lobes of the thyreoid.

  88. Her face was round and rather pale; her eyes long and narrow and blue, like the half-opened eyes of a baby; her lips and the lobes of her tiny ears were pale, a little suggestive of anaemia.

  89. Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.

  90. The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.

  91. A suborder of Medusæ which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges.

  92. In many of these creatures, such as the Saimiri (Chrysothrix), the cerebral lobes overlap and extend much farther behind the cerebellum in proportion than they do in Man.

  93. Not only do the cerebral hemispheres overlap the olfactory lobes and cerebellum, but they extend in advance of the one and farther back than the other.


  94. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lobes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.