lobe of the lung

1. 1.

   any of the three lobes of the right lung or the two lobes of the left lung

   Broaderlobe

   Part oflung

Questions about lobe of the lung

What does lobe of the lung mean?

lobe of the lung means "any of the three lobes of the right lung or the two lobes of the left lung".

Is lobe of the lung a common word?

lobe of the lung is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.