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Lyrate

Lyrate Meaning & Definition
Lyrate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lyrate?

[adj] of a leaf shape; having curvature suggestive of a lyre

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Lyrate In Webster's Dictionary

\Ly"rate\, Lyrated \Ly"ra*ted\, a. [NL. lyratus. See {Lyre}.] 1. (Bot.) Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.

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