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lyrate


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lyrate  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  lyrate 
  adj  :  of  a  leaf  shape;  having  curvature  suggestive  of  a  lyre 




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