Lyrated
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Lyrated
(Bot) Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf. -
Lyrated
(Zoöl) Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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lyrated
Same as lyrate.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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(adjs)
Lyrated
(bot.) lyre-shaped
Etymology
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary NL. lyratus,. See Lyre
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr.,—L. lyra—Gr.
Usage in literature
Its horns are of the lyrate form, and its colour a bright rufous. "Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found" by
Lower leaves mostly lyrate, incised, or pinnatifid. "The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States" by
The horns are lyrate in the male, absent in the female. "The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia" by