lyrate

How to use lyrate in a sentence

• The lowest leaves are not entire, but lyrate and pinnatified below to the mid-rib, with a terminal lobe.

  Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, Part III (the Text Being Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII of the London Edition, 1843, and the Appendix a Combination of the Appendices of the London and German [Coblentz, 1839] Editions) | Maximilian, Prinz von Wied

• The impalla is about the same size as the Grant's gazelle, but has horns of a lyrate shape.

  In Africa | John T. McCutcheon

• lyrate: lyre-shaped: cut into several transverse segments, and gradually enlarging towards the extremity.

  Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology | John. B. Smith

• The black-cock is a still larger bird; the male with a wonderful metallic, steel-blue plumage, and lyrate tail.

  Birds in Flight | W. P. Pycraft

• The horns are more or less lyrate, and generally developed in both sexes; there are frequently brushes of hair on the knees.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 | Various