trilobed

Having three lobes

Trilobed means having three lobes—rounded projections or divisions.

The term appears in botany for leaves with three distinct rounded sections, in architecture for decorative arches or windows, and in biology for organisms or structures with three-part symmetry: trilobed leaves, a trilobed arch.

botany

clover

Three-leafed legume plant

trifoliate · leaflet · compound leaf · lobate · palmate · maple · hepatica · oxalis · trillium · legume

architecture

trefoil

Three-lobed decorative motif

Notre-Dame · ogive · lancet · clerestory · vault · stained glass · flying buttress · chapel · apse · nave

symmetry

threefold

Having three parts

ternary · proportion · regularity · rotational · bilateral · axis · segment · division · geometry · pattern

Categories
Opposites
lobe count/division

trilobedsimple

Free of complexity

entire · unsubdivided · undivided · bilobed

presence vs. absence of lobes

trilobedsimple

Free of complexity

entire · unsubdivided · undivided · lobeless · whole

Family

trilobite, trilobites

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G