adj
Meaning 1
Shaped like a lyre.
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lyrate
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adj
Meaning 2
Having a large terminal lobe and smaller rounded lobes toward its base.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
Examples
- 1976, T. G. Tutin, Flora Europaea, Volume 4: Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), page 72, Basal leaves simple, lyrate or pinnatifid; cauline leaves 1- to 2-pinnatifid, pinnatisect or simple.
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noun
Meaning 3
A long feather with a shape similar to the arm of a lyre, found in the tail of lyrebirds.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
(of a leaf shape) having curvature suggestive of a lyre
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History
Etymology
From New Latin lyrātus, from lyra (“lyre”). By surface analysis, lyre + -ate.