lobule

1. 1.

   a small lobe or subdivision of a lobe

   Broaderlobe

Other forms of lobule

plural

lobules·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lobule

What does lobule mean?

lobule means "a small lobe or subdivision of a lobe".

How many syllables are in lobule?

lobule has 3 syllables: lo-bu-le. The stress falls on "lo".

Is lobule a common word?

lobule 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.