lirella

English edit

Etymology edit

Diminutive of Latin lira (“a furrow”).

Noun edit

lirella (plural lirellae)

(botany) A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lirella”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

Lallier