lobe

A rounded projection, especially a rounded, projecting anatomical part.

A subdivision of a bodily organ or part bounded by fissures, connective tissue, or other structural boundaries.

In the septate cephalopoda like Nautilus and the ammonites, any division of the septal suture which makes a convex curve toward the apex: contrasted with saddle, which is a curvature toward the aperture.

In the trilobites, one of the divisions of the glabella; a glabellar lobe.

In geology, a projection from a glacier, like a peninsula: especially used of the continental ice-sheet of the glacial epoch. see ice-lobe.

A rounded and more or less globular projection or part.

In botany, a rounded projection or division of a leaf, fruit, or other organ of a plant.

In zoology, a projection or part which is imperfectly separated from another part: as, the lobes of the maxillæ in insects.

In machinery, the larger or more prominent part of a cam-wheel.

The lobus semilunaris inferior together with the slender lobe.