Leaves sixteen to eighteen inches in length, very dark green, deeply lobed, or lyrate, and hairy, or hispid, on the nerves and borders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The radical leaves are hairy and rough, and are usually lobed, or lyrate; but, in some of the sorts, nearly spatulate, with the borders almost entire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Vilmorin mentions two varieties; one having entire leaves, the other with lyrate or lobed leaves; giving preference, however, to the one with entire leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The leaves of this species are six inches long, pale yellowish-green, lyrate, with obtuse and entire divisions: when fully developed, they somewhat resemble those of the oak, as implied by the name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The radical leaves are lyrate and roughish when young; those of the stem clasping, or heart-shaped, at base, and of an oblong form, -- all somewhat fleshy, of a dark-green color, with a glaucous bloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Its horns are of the lyrate form, and its colour a bright rufous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference

Below his knees were yellowish tufts of long hair; and his horns -- instead of being lyrate, like those of the springbok -- rose nearly vertical to the height of four inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference

Below his knees were yellowish tufts of long hair, and his horns -- instead of being lyrate, like those of the springbok -- rose nearly vertical to the height of four inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family] Reference

The species of Yucatan and southern Mexico have small lyrate antlers with few, short tines, rather different from the broader type of the more northern species with well developed secondary tines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Figures in the Maya Codices] Reference

A lyrate shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference

Lunate and lyrate, runcinate, retuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

Stem about two feet high; leaves long, lobed or lyrate, smooth and glossy, succulent and tender; flowers pale citron-yellow, with blackish-purple veins, very fragrant, having the odor of orange-blossoms; the seeds are small, roundish, brown, or reddish-brown, and retain their vitality two years, -- fifteen thousand are contained in an ounce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Root fusiform, small, hard, and woody; radical leaves lyrate, vivid green, and without any appearance of the glaucous bloom for which the biennial sorts are so distinguished; the stem-leaves are slightly glaucous, smooth, or nearly so, -- the lower ones cut on the borders, the upper entire; the seeds are small, and similar to those of the common field turnip, of which it seems to be either a variety, or the source from which the latter has been derived.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference