Shaped like a lyre. / (botany, of leaves) Having a large terminal lobe and smaller rounded lobes toward its base.

A long curved feather found in a bird's tail.

An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.

(rare) to play the lyre

(anatomy, dated) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

A bowed string musical instrument used in the Byzantine Empire. / A bowed instrument used in folk music in Crete, Greece.

A vertically suspended hoop used in acrobatic performances.

A lyric poem. / (usually in the plural) The words of a song or other vocal music.

(poetry) Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style / Of or relating to a writer of such poetry / lyrical

Appropriate for or suggestive of singing. / Expressive of emotion.