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lyrate
[ lahy-reyt, -rit ]
adjective
- Botany. (of a pinnate leaf ) divided transversely into several lobes, the smallest at the base.
- Zoology. having the shape of a lyre, as the tail of certain birds.
lyrate
/ ˈ±ô²¹ÉªÉ™°ùɪ³Ù /
adjective
- shaped like a lyre
- (of leaves) having a large terminal lobe and smaller lateral lobes
Derived Forms
- ˈ±ô²â°ù²¹³Ù±ð±ô²â, adverb
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ô²â·°ù²¹³Ù±ð·±ô²â adverb
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of lyrate1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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