Lirate vs Lyrate - What's the difference?
lirate | lyrate |
Shaped like a lyre.
*1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 205:
*:The passage of time could only enhance his tenderness for the creature he clasped, this adored creature, whose motion was now more supple, whose haunches had grown more lyrate , whose hair-ribbon he had undone.
(botany, of leaves) Having a large terminal lobe and smaller rounded lobes toward its base.