lobeless.html - n.
any plant of the genus Lobelia, with blue, scarlet, white, or purple flowers having a deeply cleft corolla. [M. de Lobel, Flemish botanist in England d. 1616]

lobeless.html - n.
1 a roundish and flattish projecting or pendulous part, often each of two or more such parts divided by a fissure (lobes of the brain).
2 = ear lobe (see EAR(1) )).

lobed adj. lobeless adj. [LL f. Gk lobos lobe, pod]

lobeless.html - n.
(pl. -ies) Surgery the excision of a lobe of an organ such as the thyroid gland, lung, etc.

lobeless.html - n.
any plant of the genus Lobelia, with blue, scarlet, white, or purple flowers having a deeply cleft corolla. [M. de Lobel, Flemish botanist in England d. 1616]

lobeless.html - v. & n.
--v.

tr. (lobbed, lobbing)
1 hit or throw (a ball or missile etc.) slowly or in a high arc.
2 send (an opponent) a lobbed ball.

--n.

1 a a ball struck in a high arc. b a stroke producing this result.
2 Cricket a slow underarm ball. [earlier as noun, prob. f. LG or Du.]

lobeless.html - adj.
1 of the lungs (lobar pneumonia).
2 of, relating to, or affecting a lobe.