Definition of "lobule"

Diminutive of lobe:

1. (anatomy) A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.  examples

2. (botany) In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac.  quotations  examples

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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.

     1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page 4