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Lobe

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

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Narrower term 1

Lobule 76% connected

A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 2

Loop 76% connected

A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

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Projection 76% connected

The act of throwing or shooting forward.

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Lobar 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Lobar 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

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Containing whole 5

Foliage 70% connected

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

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Leaf 70% connected

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…

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Leafage 70% connected

Leaves, collectively; foliage.

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Organ 70% connected

An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers…

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Pattern 70% connected

Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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