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Lobule vs Lobular - What's the difference?

lobule | lobular |

As a noun lobule

is a small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.

As an adjective lobular is

of or relating to a lobule.

lobule

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
  • (botany) In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac.
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    • The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule', usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some ''Frullania'' taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the '''lobules''', and ''Neohattoria'' has caducous ' lobules but persistent lobes.

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    lobular

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or relating to a lobule