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Definition of Lyrated
1. lyrate [adj] - See also: lyrate
Medical Definition of Lyrated
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lyrated
Literary usage of Lyrated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"It is a little less than the roebuck i appears to be one or the other of the
prece- in size, with round, black, lyrated horns, about ding species. ..."
2. Remarks on Forest Scenery, and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"They are lyrated with large and deep sinuses. The acorns are broad, rounded, and
flattened at their summits, and they are almost entirely enclosed in their ..."
3. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1834)
"The boras are irregularly lyrated, bending boldly outwards towards the points,
... The horns of the springbuck are ratl «т irregularly lyrated, ..."
4. Thesaurus conchyliorum, or Monographs of genera of shells by George Brettingham Sowerby (1866)
"... deeply impressed, lyrated lengthways. Hinge-margin broad. Teeth numerous on
either side of the minute triangular cartilage-pit, more so in front. ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"The lyrated horns are placed vertically on the summit of the cranium, those of
the bontebok being jet black, whereas they are light brown in the blesbok. ..."
6. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin (1871)
"That the branched antlers of stags, as well as the elegant lyrated horns of
certain antelopes, with their graceful double curvature, (fig. ..."
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