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lyrate

The English word “lyrate” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  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.

Etymology

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

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