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  • adjective having two lobes

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Examples

  • That only works with a bell-shaped electorate, but more and more people are seeing that the US electorate right now is two-lobed, with a dip in the center.

    Matthew Yglesias » Penn Again 2007

  • One is a two-lobed pear-shaped kind of thing with short dense thick white prickers; the other is a ridged round morningstar-head-shaped creature with clusters of long red prickers.

    john dillinger is alive and well and living in-- netcurmudgeon 2007

  • Not far from the wolf are figures I recognise from our festivals – some Leaping Priests with two-lobed shields, and a pair of Wolf-boys running naked, brandishing their thorn-sticks at laughing women.

    'Lavinia' 2008

  • Its seemingly two-lobed head had a pair of slender tentacles and may have borne eyes.

    Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • That the pollen-lobes are not to be taken as halves of a staminal leaf, but rather as specialised portions of it, not necessarily occupying half its surface, is shown also in the case of double-flowered _Malvaceæ_, in which the stamens are frequently partly petal-like, partly divided into numerous separate filaments, each bearing a one -, or it may be even a two-lobed anther.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • The leaves (Fig.  52, _A_, _B_) are rounded in outline unequally, two-lobed, and arranged in two rows on the upper side of the stem, so closely overlapping as to conceal it entirely.

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

  • They are of a light purple colour, each flower ½in. across, corolla prettily cupped, segments two-lobed, greenish white at bases, tube long and cylindrical, calyx about half length of tube, teeth rather long and of a dark brown colour.

    Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

  • _Palea_ is hyaline, smaller than the glume, oblong, obtuse, minutely two-lobed or two-toothed at the apex; margins broadly infolded.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • -- Above ashy blue, slaty or pale mouse colour; albescent or yellowish ashy beneath; nasal appendage large, oblong, free at the tip, reaching to the base of the ears with a fold down the centre; tragus (_oreillon_) cordate, two-lobed, anterior long, narrow and pointed, posterior lobe half the height and rounded; muzzle truncated; under-lip cleft; wing membranes dark brown.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • What connection there should be between the single cotyledon of the seed and the peculiar character and growth of the endogenous plant, its hard and shining outside surface, with no bark and no successive layers of wood, and on the other hand between a two-lobed constitution of the seed, and a bark, a pith, and a growth by successive outside layers, is a profound mystery.

    Aboriginal America 1860

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