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lyrate

[ lahy-reyt, -rit ]

adjective

  1. Botany. (of a pinnate leaf ) divided transversely into several lobes, the smallest at the base.
  2. Zoology. having the shape of a lyre, as the tail of certain birds.


lyrate

/ ˈ±ô²¹ÉªÉ™°ùɪ³Ù /

adjective

  1. shaped like a lyre
  2. (of leaves) having a large terminal lobe and smaller lateral lobes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±ô²â°ù²¹³Ù±ð±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±ô²â·°ù²¹³Ù±ð·±ô²â adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lyrate1

From the New Latin word ±ô²â°ùÄå³Ù³Ü²õ, dating back to 1750–60. See lyre, -ate 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lyrate1

C18: from New Latin ±ô²â°ùÄå³Ù³Ü²õ, Latin from lyra lyre
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Leaves all lyrate or runcinate, the upper often with a heart-shaped clasping base; panicle larger; achenes distinctly beaked; otherwise as n. 7.—Rich soil, Penn. to Ill., and southward.

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Turnip, tur′nip, n. a biennial plant, with lyrate hispid leaves, the upper part of the root becoming, esp. in cultivation, swollen and fleshy—cultivated as a culinary esculent, and for feeding cattle and sheep.—n.

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Its horns, however, are not lyrate, as in the springbok, but rise first in the plane of its forehead, and then curve boldly forward to the tips.

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The long face, high crest for the horns, which are ringed, lyrate and more or less strongly angulated, and the moderately long tail, are the distinctive features of the hartebeests.

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A little farther on a ruddy antelope, with lyrate horns, leaped out of the bush before them and dashed off towards the river before Blake could string his bow.

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