lobes

• [308 When the petalody specially affects the anther-lobes, as in Arbutus_, Petunia_, Fuchsia_, &c.;_, the venation of the petal-like portion is very frequently laminar, thus tending to show that the anther is in such cases really a modification of the blade of the leaf; but as, on the other hand, we often find petal-like filaments bearing pollen-sacs on their sides, it is clear that we must not attribute the formation of pollen to the blade of the leaf only, but we must admit that it may be formed in the filament as well. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• They differ greatly in the form of the tail-lobes, and in the presence or absence of spines upon the tail, and had always been considered perfectly distinct species. —  Darwinism (1889)
• His ear-lobes are always stretched to hang down in long loops, in which small medals, ornaments, decorated blocks of wood, or the like, are inserted. —  African Camp Fires
• Series 2, Heteromerae, has generally a superior ovary, stamens as many as the corolla-lobes or more, and more than two carpels. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• Gall moreover surmised that the faculty of language lay in the frontal lobes, and Bouillaud supported Gall's proposition by citing cases in which speech had been affected during life, and in which after death the frontal lobes were found to be damaged by disease. —  The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song

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