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Lyrate [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

LY'RATE

Lyrate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, divided transversely into several jags, the lower ones smaller and more remote from each other than the upper ones; as a lyrate leaf.

Lyrate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Lyrated

Lyrated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

2. Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.