lobe 
main forks of the Sylvian fissure, ;i fifth loho is recogniz- 
able, called the central lobe, inmla, or island of lieil. Again, 
the frontal lube is sometimes regarded as two; then six 
lobes are recognized by name, called pre.t'rmitril,pat(fr<mtal, 
parietal, temporal, occipital, and central (the last being the 
insula). These lobes only concern the topography of the 
surface of the cerebrum, and are in no way related to the 
fundamental segments or primitive divisions of the brain 
as a whole, being all of them parts of the prosencephalon 
alone. Lesser divisions of the lobes are called convolutions, 
ijirres, or gyri. (2) In the cerebellum, a group or cluster of 
folia demarcated by unusually deep riniuto or fissures. 
C'ertain of the interfoliar crevices are so deep or so dis- 
tinct as to warrant the recognition of the intervening 
groups of folia or lobes. 
Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, p. 125. 
(o) In bot., arounded projection or division of a leaf, fruit, 
or other organ of a plant, (c) In zoiil., a projection or part 
which is imperfectly separated from another part : as, the 
lobes of the maxilhe in insects, (d) In mach., the larger 
or more prominent part of a cam-wheel. Anterior lobe 
of the cerebellum, the anterosnperior lobe. Anterior 
superior lobe of the cerebellum, the anterosuperior 
lobe. Anterosuperior lobe of the cerebellum, the an- 
terior portion of the upper surface of one or the other cere- 
bellar Hemisphere, divided into the anterior and posterior 
crescentic lobes. Also called quadrate or square lobe and 
lobus or lobulus guadranaularis. Biventral lobe. Same 
as digastric lobe of the cerebellum. Caudate lobe Of the 
liver, wee caudate. Central lobe of the cerebellum, 
the anterior division of the superior vermis, behind the lin- 
gula and in front of the monticulus. Also called lobulus 
centralis. Central lobe of the cerebrum. Same as in- 
sula. -Crescentic anterior and posterior lobe, the 
two divisions of the centerosuperior lobe of the cerebel- 
lum. Also called lobus or lobulus lunatus anterior and lobus 
or lobulus lunatus posterior. Cuneate lobe, the cuneate 
gyrus, the triangular tract on the median surface of the 
occipital lobe of the cerebrum bounded by the parieto. 
occipital and calcarine fissures. Digastric lobe Of the 
cerebellum. See cerebellum. Epigastric lobes. See 
epigastric. Falciform lobe, the limbic lobe together with 
the lamina septilucidi ; dentate convolution and fornix. 
Frontal lobe of the carapace. See frontal. Frontal 
lobe Of the cerebrum, the anterior lobe of the cerebrum 
separated from the parietal by the fissure of Rolando, or 
central fissure. Gastric, genital, hepatic, hypogas- 
tric, intermaxillary lobe. See the adjectives. Infe- 
rior posterior lobe of the cerebellum, (a) The lo- 
bus semilunaris inferior, (b) The lobus semilunaris in- 
ferior together with the slender lobe. Lateral lobes. 
See lateral. Limbic lobe, the gyrus fornicatus and gyrus 
hippocampi taken together. Marginal lobe, lobule, or 
gyrus. the convolution on the median surface of the cere- 
brum bounded below by the callosomarginal fissure. It 
is the median portion of the superior frontal convolution 
with the paracentral lobule. Occipital lobe, the pos- 
terior portion of the cerebrum marked off from the parie- 
tal lobe by the parieto-occipital fissure. Olfactory lobe, 
that process of the cerebral hemispheres which consists of 
the olfactory tract, and the olfactory bulb in which it ends. 
Orbital, procephalic, etc., lobe. See the adjectives. 
Parietal lobe of the cerebrum, the middle lobe of 
the vault of the cerebrum, separated from the frontal by 
the central fissure and marked off from the occipital by the 
parieto-occipital fissure. It is divided by the intraparietal 
fissure into a superior and an inferior parietal lobe. Pos- 
terior superior lobe of the cerebellum, the posterosu- 
perior lobe. Posterosuperior lobe of the cerebellum, 
the posterior lobe of the upper surface of the cerebellum. 
Also called semilunar lobe or lobus semilunaris superior. 
Quadrate lobe, the anterosuperior lobe of the cerebel- 
lum. Quadrate lobe of the cerebrum, that part of the 
median surface of the cerebrum which lies between the 
parieto-occipital fissure and the posterior part of the callo- 
somarginal fissure. Also called quadrate lobule and prce- 
cuneus. Semilunar lobe, the posterosuperior lobe of the 
cerebellum. Slender lobe, the lobe of the under surface 
of the cerebellar hemisphere which lies between the bi- 
ventral lobe in front and the inferior semilunar lobe behind. 
Also called lobus or lobulus trracUis. Square lobe, the an- 
terosuperior lobe of the cerebellum. Subpeduncular 
lobe. Sameas/TocctrfMs, 2. Temporosphenoidal lobe, 
the lobe of the cerebrum which occupies the middle cere- 
bral fossa of the skull : it is separated from the frontal and 
parietal lobes by the fissure of Sylvius. Also called tem- 
poral lobe. Uncinate lobe, the uncinate gyrus, the an- 
terior hooked extremity of the hippocampal gyrus. 
lobe-berry (16b'ber"i), n. The fruit of the sea- 
side grape, Coecoloba urAfera, of the West In- 
dies. 
lobed (lobd), a. [< lobe + -ed 2 .] Having a lobe 
or lobes; lobate; lobose; specifically, in bot., 
said of a leaf when the division extends not 
more than half-way to the middle, and either 
the sinuses or lobes are rounded; in entom., 
having a single lobe or lobe-like projection. 
Sometimes used, like lobate, to indicate a divi- 
sion into two or more lobes Lobed Joint of an 
antenna, a joint expanded laterally at the apex into a 
lobe. Lobed prosternuni, a prosternum having an an- 
terior rounded projection over the mouth. Lobed pro- 
thorax, a prothorax having a posterior projection of the 
upper surface, between the elytra, often concealing the 
scutellum. 
lobefoot (lob'fut), n.; pi. lobefoots or lobefeet 
(-futs or -fet). A lobe-footed bird or lobiped: 
as, the northern lobefoot, Lobipes hyperboreus. 
See Lobipes. 
lobe-footed (16b'fut"ed), a. Having lobate feet; 
lobiped, as a coot, grebe, or phalarope. 
lobelet (lob'let), n. [< lobe + -let.'] In anat., 
zoiil., and bot., a little lobe ; a lobule. 
Lobelia (lo-be'lia), n. [NL., named after Mat- 
thias de Label, a Fleming, botanist and physi- 
cian to James I. of England.] 1. A genus of 
3494 
Lobotidae 
gamopetalous plants, the type of the natural or- 2. Xaut.: (a) Water-gruel or spoon-meat, 
der Lobeliacea:, distinguished by having the CO- Whole grits boyled in water till they burst and 
and then 
VH'l /.l/i/f f tin r it , Mir.i<jiiti,iAAu*i~% "j ~ r - e " v"- e" v " "-*- ,i,_ 1.1 u 
rolla-tube split down almost to the base, without mixt with butter and so eaten with spoons, which . . . 
...:i.u ! !,;!, ;= t_-,,ol^Q/1 seamen call simply by the name ottoUoUy. 
a spur, and with a capsule which is two-valved 
at the summit. The plants are herbs, rarely shrubby, 
with alternate leaves, and irregular five-parted flowers 
either axillary or in racemes. There are about 200 species, 
found in all warm and temperate regions, with the excep- 
tion of central and eastern Europe and western Asia. Nu- 
merous species are cultivated for the beauty of their flow- 
Cardtnal-flower (Lobelia cardinalis). 
i. Inflorescence, a. Lower part of stem, a, flower f b, stamen- 
tube inclosing the pistil ; c , pistil ; d, upper part of the pistil and sta- 
men-tube ; e, transverse section of the fruit. 
ers, which are usually blue, scarlet, or purple. L. cardinalis 
is the cardinal-flower, and L. syphilitica is sometimes called 
the blue cardinal-Jlower. (See cardinal-flower.) L. Dort- 
seamen call simply by the 
JIarkham. (Ilallmell.) 
(b) Medicines collectively. Also written, erro- 
neously, loplolly. 
The roughness of the language used on board a man of 
war where he [Dr. Johnson] passed a week on a visit to 
Captain Knight, disgusted him terribly. He asked an of- 
ficer what some place was called, and received for answer 
that it was where the loplolly man kept his loplolly: a re- 
ply he considered as disrespectful, gross and ignorant. 
Mrs. Fiona, Anec., p. 285 (Boswell's Johnson, ed. Hill, 
[L 378)i 
loblolly-bay (lob'lol-i-ba),H. Thepopularname 
of the Gordonia Lasianthus, of the natural order 
Ternstrcemiacete, an elegant ornamental tree of 
the southern United States. Also called tan-bay. 
loblolly-boy (lob'lol-i-boi), n. Naut.. a ship- 
surgeon's attendant, who compounds the medi- 
cines and assists the surgeon in his duties. In 
the United States navy called layman or nurse. 
I ... suffered from the rude insults of the sailors and 
petty officers, among whom I was known by the name of 
Loblolly Boy. Smollett, Roderick Random, xxvii. 
loblolly-pine (lob'lol-i-pln), n. A tree, Finns 
Tceda, growing in sterile soil in the southern 
Atlantic and Gulf States of North America. 
It yields fuel and inferior lumber, and to a small extent 
turpentine. It is also called old-field pine, and a better 
variety rosemary-pine. 
loblolly-sweetwood (lob'lol-i-swet"wud), . 
A tree, Ktiadophyllum Jacquinii. [West Indies.] 
loblolly-tree (lob'lol-i-tre), . A tree of the ge- 
nus Cupania, of the natural order Sapindacea, 
especially C. glabra; also a tree, Pisonia subcor- 
data, of the order Nyctaginece. 
lobo (16'bo), n. [Sp., a wolf, < L. lupus, a wolf: 
see wolf.] A large gray wolf of the southwest- 
ern United States, Canis lupus occidentals. 
loboite (16'bo-it), . [Named by Berzelius after 
the Chevalier Lobo da Silveira.] In mineral., 
a magnesiaii variety of vesuvianite or idocrase 
occurring in Norway. 
grows in the water of shallow lakes in northern Eu- Lobophora (16-bof 'd-ra). n. pi. Same as Mar- 
id America, and is called water-lobelia. L. corona- * "^ ,;,! 
manna 
rope and America, aim is cant-u wor/--*ooitt. u. cvrviw t 
piMia is called buck's-horn on account of its forked leaves. *P*' 
L. Krinus of the Cape of Good Hope is the common little Lobosa (to-bo'sa), n. pi. [NL,., neut. pi. of lobo- 
sus, lobose : see lobose."] An order of the class 
Rliizopoda, characterized by their shapeless- 
ness and the constant protrusion of lobose pro- 
cesses called pseudopodia; the normal amo3- 
boids or lobose protozoans: contrasted with 
Filosa. The order distinguishes the amoebif orm 
protozoans from the Radiolaria, Heliozoa, Fora- 
minifera, etc. 
genus iofiefta/embracing 28 genera, of which lobose (lo'bos), a. [< NL. lobosus, < lobus, a 
24 belong to the tribe Lobeliea; and 4 to the lobe: see lobe.] Having many or large lobes; 
tribe Cyphieie. The order includes about 540 species, specifically , of or pertaining to the Lobosa : as, 
growing in nearly all but the frigid regions of the globe, the lobose protozoans. 
We have lefta certain small number of independent lo- 
- Gymnomyxa which it is most convenient to associate 
syngenesious flowers, which ally them to the Composite. ' a separate group. Encyc. Bnt., XIX. 842. 
lobeliaceous (lo-be-li-a'shius), a. Pertaining to Lobostomatinae, Lobostominae (lo-bo-sto-ma- 
or resembling the Lobeliacea;. ti'ne, 16"bo-stp-mi'ne), n. pl.^ [NL.,<Gr. /.<>/%, 
' 
spreading lobelia of conservatories and gardens. L. fvlgens 
and L. splendens from Mexico are conspicuous cultivated 
species. The officinal lobelia formerly employed as an 
emetic is L. iiiflata. It contains an acrid narcotic poison. 
It is a wide-spread American species. 
2. [I. c.] A plant of this genus. 
Lobeliaceae (lo-be-li-a'se-e), n. pi. [NL. (A. 
L. de Jussieu, 1811), < Lobelia + -acece.] An 
order of gamopetalous plants, typified by the 
' 
lobeliad (lo-be'li-ad), n. [< Lobelia + -ad.] 
A plant of the order Lobeliacece; used in the 
plural, the order itself. Lindley. 
Lobeliese (16-be-li'e-e), n.pl. [NL. (Presl, 1836), 
< Lobelia + -eon.] 'A tribe of plants of the nat- 
ural order Lobeliacea!, characterized by an ir- 
regular corolla, and having the anthers joined 
in a tube about the style. They are principally 
herbs with alternate leaves and the flowers axillary or Lobotes (16-bd'tez). n 
growing in racemes. The group includes 24 genera, --i-j -^ ^- ^i-- 
found principally in tropical or subtropical climates. 
The principal genus, and type of the tribe, is Lobelia. 
lobeline (lo'be-lin), n. [< Lobelia + -iite?.] An 
acrid poisonous principle procured from Lobelia 
inflata, said to resemble nicotine, 
lobe-plate (lob'plat), n. Same as sole-plate. 
lobi, n. Plural of lobus. 
lobiole (lo'bi-61), n. [< NL. lobiolus, dim. of 
lobus, lobe : see lobe.] In bot., one of the small 
lobes into which the thallus of some lichens is 
divided, 
lobiped (16'bi-ped), a. and n. [< NL. lobipes 
(-ped-), < lobus, a lobe (see lobe), + L. pes (ped-) 
lobe, + aTopa (CTO/IUT-), mouth, + -i<8.J A sub- 
family of bats of the family Phyllostomatidce, 
having simple nostrils without nose-leaf, but 
the chin with leaf -like appendages, and having 
2 incisors in each upper and lower half-jaw, 
and 2 premolars above and 3 below on each 
side. There are two genera, Chilomycteris and 
Mormops. 
[NL. (Cuvier, 1829), so 
anal, and caudal fins, likened to one 3-lobed fin ; 
< Gr. Xo/3oc, a lobe : see lobe. ] The typical genus 
of Lpbotina;, having bands of villif orm teeth on 
the jaws, and an anterior series of larger conical 
teeth. L. surinatnensis is the flasher or tripletail, a large 
= Gr. 7roi'c(i'o<5-) = E./oof.] I. a. Lobe-footed, 
as a bird; having lobate feet. 
II. . A lobe-footed bird. 
Lobipes (16'bi-pez), w. [NL.: see lobiped.] l.A 
genus of phalaropes of the family Scolopacidce, 
whose type is the northern phalarope, Lobipets 
hyperboreus; the lobefoots. Cuvier. 2. A ge- 
nus of reptiles. Fiteinger, 1843. 
Lobotes surinatHfnsis. 
fish, 2 or 3 feet long, found in all warm seas, and north on 
the Atlantic coast of the United States to Cape Cod. 
Lobotidae (lo-bot'i-de), w. pi. [NL., < Lobotes 
nus oi reptiles, enzinger, 1843. 
loblolly (lob'lol-i), . [< (oft 1 + lollyl.] If. A + -idee.] A family of sparoid fishes, typified 
loutish or foolish person. by the genus Lobotes, having the vomer, pala- 
tines, and tongue toothless, the profile con- 
cave, the caudal fin convex, and the dorsal fin 
This lob-lollie with slauering lips would be making loue. 
Breton, Orimello's Fortunes, p. 9. (Davits.) 
