lyrate's Usage Examples:

HARTEBEEST, the Boer name for a large South African antelope (also known as caama) characterized by its red colour, long face with naked muzzle and sharply angulated lyrate horns, which are present in both sexes.

They have heavily fringed necks, tufted tails, long lyrate horns in the bucks (fig.

The long face, high crest for the horns, which are ringed, lyrate and more or less strongly angulated, and the moderately long tail, are the distinctive features of the hartebeests.

Both sexes carry lyrate horns; the shoulder-height of an adult male is about 30 in.

Pits are present in the forehead of the skull, and the horns are ringed for part of their length, with a compressed base; their form being often lyrate,.

With the palla, or impala(A epyceros melampus), we reach an exclusively African genus, characterized by the lyrate horns of the bucks, the absence of lateral hoofs, and the presence of a pair of glands with black tufts of hair on the hind-feet.

lyrate or sub-lyrate horns in both sexes, and by the white of the buttocks not extending on to the haunches.

The horns are more or less lyrate,and generally developed in both sexes; there are frequently brushes of hair on the knees.

lyrata, is a large tree, chiefly found on swampy land in the southern states; the lyrate leaves are dilated at the end; the globose acorns are nearly covered by the tuberculated cups.

Synonyms:

unsubdivided, simple,

Antonyms:

compound, rough, difficult,