"Lobed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... alike in important points, when we examine them carefully," was the reply. "The bread-fruit genus consists, with a single exception, of trees and shrubs with alternate, toothed or lobed or entire leaves and milky juice. This reminds me that the famous cow tree of South America, which yields a large supply of rich and wholesome milk, is one of the members; and you see what a number of famous trees we have on hand now. There are several kinds ...
— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church
... a number of such transverse constrictions, the whole body growing, meanwhile, in height. But now an extraordinary change takes place in the portions thus divided off. Each one assumes a distinct organic structure, as if it had an individual life of its own. The margin becomes lobed in eight deep scallops, and a tube or canal runs through the centre of each such lobe to the centre of the body, where a digestive cavity is already formed. At this time the constrictions have deepened, so that the margins of all the successive ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... trilobatum, A. Br. (sometimes four- lobed, and more commonly five-lobed). a. Leaf, half natural size. b. Part of same, natural size. c. Fruit, natural size. d. Seed, natural ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell
... and with Belshazzar at his feet he drove through the woods to the sarsaparilla beds. He noticed the beautiful lobed leaves, at which the rabbits had been nibbling, and the heads of lustrous purple-black berries as he began digging the roots ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter |
