a. Nat. Hist. [ad. mod.L. lyrāt-us, f. lyra LYRE: see -ATE2.] Shaped like a lyre. In Bot., of a leaf: Pinnatifid, with the upper lobes much larger than the lower.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., III. v. (1765), 179. Lyrate, Lyre-shaped.

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1785.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxiii. (1794), 323. Winter Cress with lyrate leaves, the outmost lobe roundish.

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1852.  Dana, Crust., I. 86. Carapax lyrate.

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1856–8.  W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., II. 652. Gazella … Horns lyrate.

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1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 30. Upper leaves toothed or lyrate.

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1880.  Huxley, Crayfish, v. 234. A characteristic lyrate mark upon the cephalic region of the carapace.

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1893.  Selous, Trav. S. E. Africa, 450. The elegant lyrate horns of the males.

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  b.  Used in comb. with sense ‘lyrate and —,’ in lyrate-pinnate, -pinnatifid adjs. Also in quasi-L. form lyrato-.

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1775.  Jenkinson, Brit. Plants, Gloss., Lyrato-hastated, is shaped partly like a harp or lyre, and partly like a spear.

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1806.  J. Galpine, Brit. Bot., 96. Stipulæ lyrato-pinnatifid.

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1845.  Lindley, Sch. Bot., v. (1858), 60. Radical leaves lyrate-pinnate.

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1847.  W. E. Steele, Field Bot., 105. Leaves glabrous, or hairy, the radical ones lyrate-pinnatifid.

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