lobula

lobula (plural lobulae or lobulas)

1. Alternative form of lobule
   • 1968, Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, page 491:

     6. Isidia accompanied by conspicuous dorsiventral lobulae in tufts on the thallus surface or as a fringe along the margins of the thallus lobes / 6. Isidiate plants without dorsiventral lobulae.

   • 1990, Jonathan Bard, “The epithelial repertoire”, in Morphogenesis: The Cellular and Molecular Processes of Developmental Anatomy, Cambridge University Press, published 1992, →ISBN, section 4, “Changing the shape of epithelia”, page 193:

     It may be that morphogenesis derives from the surface as a whole contracting and buckling in some way to generate the lobulae.

   • 2012, Nicholas James Strausfeld, “Beneath the Faceted Eye”, in Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 131, columns 1–2:

     Both decapods and insects share the attribute of having lobulas, the neurons of which contribute to retinotopic ensembles of dendritic trees.