▪ I. lirate, a.
(ˈlaɪərət)
[f. L. līra ridge, furrow: see -ate2.]
Of a shell: having ridges. Hence liˈration, marking of this kind.
| 1894 J. W. Taylor Monogr. Land & Freshwater Mollusca Brit. Isles I. i. 28 Cingulate, or Lirate, when the whorls are furnished with spiral ribs or ridgings. 1901 Proc. Zool. Soc. II. 357 Actis calotropis... A very delicate species, vitreous,..delicately spirally lirate. 1904 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 7th Ser. XIII. 459 This liration bears small tubercles connected by short cross-ridges with the dentations of the keel. |
▪ II. lirate
variant of lyrate.