different between lobe vs heterocercy

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)

1. 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.

2. (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.]
3. (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)

1. (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

1. inflection of lober:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

lobe

1. inflection of loben:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Latin

Noun

lobe

1. vocative singular of lobus

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Noun

heterocercy (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.