English Explanatory Dictionary

lyrate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Shaped like a lyre.
  2. Having a large terminal lobe and smaller rounded lobes toward its base.
noun
  1. A long feather with a shape similar to the arm of a lyre, found in the tail of lyrebirds.

Word forms

lyrate more lyrate most lyrate lyrates

Etymology

From New Latin lyrātus, from lyra (“lyre”). By surface analysis, lyre + -ate.

Derived words

lyrate Asiatic hard clam lyrately lyrate rockcress lyrate rocksnail oblyrate
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