Definition of "lyre-shaped" [lyre-shaped]

• Shaped like a lyre (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Ms. Grubb likes Ficus lyrata—the darling of interior decorators—known as the fiddle-leaf fig with its "broad lyre-shaped foliage.""
• "The panels were decorated with wall-paper — Oriental scenes in sepia tint — and for all furniture, half-a-dozen chairs with lyre-shaped backs and blue leather cushions were ranged round the room."
• "Its general color is dark gray, but the thorax is marked with a silvery-white lyre-shaped pattern; the abdomen is banded with silvery-white stripes and the six-jointed legs are striped alternately with black and pure white."