lyrate

adjective

Having a form or curvature suggestive of a lyre.

adjective

Having a pinnately divided leaf with an enlarged terminal lobe and smaller lateral lobes.

Resembling a lyre; having the form or curves of a lyre; lyre-shaped. In ornithology, applied to the tail of the lyre-bird, Menura superba, and of the blackcock, Tetrao or Lyrurus tetrix; in entomology, to insects or parts which approach the form of a lyre or lyrate leaf.

adjective

Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base.

adjective

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

adjective

Shaped like a lyre.

adjective

Having a large terminal lobe and smaller rounded lobes toward its base.

adjective

(of a leaf shape) having curvature suggestive of a lyre