'Lobate' definitions:

Definition of 'lobate'

adjective

Having or resembling a lobe or lobes; "a lobate tongue" [syn: lobate, lobated]

adjective

Having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other [syn: lobed, lobate]

From: GCIDE

Lobate \Lo"bate\, Lobated \Lo"ba*ted\, a. [See Lobe.]
1. (Bot.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf. [1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) (a) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays. (b) Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves. [1913 Webster]