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Definition of Lyriform
1. lyrate [adj] - See also: lyrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lyriform
Literary usage of Lyriform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"But the more characteristic form of these organs, and the one that suggested the
name lyriform, is found on the appendages, where they usually occur near ..."
2. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"Many observers believe that certain surface organs found universally among the
spiders, to which Gaubert has given the name of lyriform organs, are auditory ..."
3. The International Journal of Orthodontia and Oral Surgery (1919)
"Moreover, the arch forms of the upper jaw, of greatest frequency occurring in
the gibbon, orang and chimpanzee, correspond to the pyriform, lyriform, ..."
4. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1913)
"Male genitalia with the gth sternite produced caudad into a conspicuous lyriform
plate. Male antennae elongated, as long as the body ..."
5. Entomologisk Tidskrift by Entomologiska föreningen i Stockholm (1916)
"»lyriform organ» has been given by GAUBERT, and this name has been extended so
... In 1892 GAUBERT under- took a more special study of the lyriform organs, ..."
6. The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
"Gaubert does not agree with this, and considere the lyriform organs to be concerned
with the temperature-sense rather than with audition. ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"The author also fails to cite certain important memoirs, such as Gaubert •on the
lyriform organs, Wagner on the auditory hairs and moult, ..."
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