different between frond vs lobe
frond
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin frons, frond- (“leafy branch”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f??nd/
- (US) IPA(key): /f??nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Noun
frond (plural fronds)
- (botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
- Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 35):
- Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 35):
Translations
Anagrams
- fnord
Middle English
Noun
frond
- Alternative form of frend
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lobe
English
Etymology
From Middle French lobe in early 16th century, from New Latin lobus (“a lobe”), from Ancient Greek ????? (lobós, “the lobe of the ear or of the liver, the pod of a leguminous plant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??b/
- Rhymes: -??b
Noun
lobe (plural lobes)
- Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. [from 19th c.]
- A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 19,
- He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors.
- (anatomy) A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung. [from 16th c.]
- (figure skating) A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it. [from 20th c.]
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- earlobe
- lobe-finned
- lobe-shaped
- trilobite
Related terms
- lobotomy
Translations
See also
- (brain lobes) brain lobe; frontal lobe, occipital lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe (Category: en:Brain)
Further reading
- lobe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lobe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Bole, Lebo, Loeb, bole
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?b/
Etymology 1
From Middle French, from Ancient Greek ????? (lobós).
Noun
lobe m (plural lobes)
- (anatomy, botany) lobe (of an organ)
References
- “lobe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Etymology 2
Verb
lobe
- inflection of lober:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
German
Pronunciation
Verb
lobe
- inflection of loben:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Latin
Noun
lobe
- vocative singular of lobus
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