lyrate leaf

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   a simple leaf having curvature suggestive of a lyre

   Broadersimple leaf

Questions about lyrate leaf

What does lyrate leaf mean?

lyrate leaf means "a simple leaf having curvature suggestive of a lyre".

Is lyrate leaf a common word?

lyrate leaf is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.