lobule
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From lobe + -ule (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒbjuːl, (General American) -ɑbjul
Noun
lobule (plural lobules)
- diminutive of lobe:
- (anatomy) A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
- (botany) In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
- 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.
Derived terms
- lobular (adjective)
Translations
small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe
References
- “lobule”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “lobule”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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