lobe

Definition

Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.

Etymology

From Middle French lobe in early 16th century, from New Latin lobus (“a lobe”), from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós, “the lobe of the ear or of the liver, the pod of a leguminous plant”).

Example Sentences

• "A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano."
• "He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors."
• "The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure."

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