Sentence example with the word 'lyrate'

lyrate

Definition adj. (of a leaf shape) having curvature suggestive of a lyre

Last update: June 19, 2015


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Lyrata, is a large tree, chiefly found on swampy land in the southern states; the lyrate leaves are dilated at the end; the globose acorns are nearly covered by the tuberculated cups.   [Please select]

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Horns absent in the female; in the male long, annulated and lyrate, the points projecting inwards" (_Sir V.")   [Please select]

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Its horns are of the lyrate form, and its colour a bright rufous.   [Please select]

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Lyrate: lyre-shaped: cut into several transverse segments, and gradually enlarging towards the extremity.   [Please select]

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Below his knees were yellowish tufts of long hair, and his horns--instead of being lyrate, like those of the springbok--rose nearly vertical to the height of four inches.   [Please select]

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Hornless females would place it among the latter; but lyrate horns, ovine nose, and want of sinus, would give it rather to Gazella, and its singular inguinal purses further ally it to _Ant.   [Please select]

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