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Lyrated

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Lyrated
    (Bot) Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.
  2. Lyrated
    (Zoöl) Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. lyrated
    Same as lyrate.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (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 Mayne Reid

Lower leaves mostly lyrate, incised, or pinnatifid. "The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States" by Asa Gray

The horns are lyrate in the male, absent in the female. "The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia" by Frank Evers Beddard