Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a crescent.
- noun Archaeology A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Crescent-shaped, or like the moon in its first quarter; having a figure formed by a part of a circle cut off by the segment of a larger circle.
- In zoology, same as
lunated , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Crescent-shaped; resembling the crescent moon
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like a crescent.
- noun archaeology A small stone
artifact , probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of theMesolithic Period.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling the new moon in shape
Etymologies
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Examples
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If the terms lunate, tunulate or crefcent-JJjaped be objected to, we may ufe the periphrafis, JJjaped like a crcfccni, for any form of a leaf, &c. refembling the moon in any period of her firfi: quarter; fince tills term does not occur very frequently.
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Frenum: that which holds things together: a lunate or triangular portion at the inner and hinder base of the wing in Odonata and Trichoptera; see tendo.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Fruiting in summer: Plant fleshy, sterile part mostly with lunate segments.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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VESPERUGO TICKELLI. HABITAT.--Chybassa, Jashpur, and Sirguja. DESCRIPTION.--Head broad and flat; labial glands developed; ears moderate, rounded above; outer edge straight, emarginate opposite base of tragus, terminating in a small lobe; tragus lunate; tail long; last vertebra free. The face is more clad with fur than in other species of this genus; fur of the body pale, straw brown above, pale buff beneath.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The lunate may be displaced forward by forcible dorsiflexion of the hand, and forms a projection beneath the flexor tendons; there is usually loss of sensibility in the distribution of the ulnar nerve in the hand.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The navicular (scaphoid) and lunate (semilunar) are those most commonly fractured, usually by indirect violence, by forced dorsiflexion from a fall on the extended hand.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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In one section, Ms. Falk declares: "Dart had mistakenly identified the lambdoid suture of the skull that had been imprinted on Taung's endocast as the lunate sulcus!"
Bones That Tell a Tale Brian Switek 2011
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I think fish with lunate tail fins (meaning crescent or sickle-shaped) such as tuna, various jacks, and marlin can exert more proportionately more force than those with broad tails such as bass or trout.
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I think fish with lunate tail fins (meaning crescent or sickle-shaped) such as tuna, various jacks, and marlin can exert more proportionately more force than those with broad tails such as bass or trout.
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In her estimation, experts misinterpreted some of the intricate crevices and lumps on this brain cast, leading to the mistaken assumption that a feature called the lunate sulcus was in a position similar to ours, when the lunate sulcus was actually in a position more similar to nonhuman apes.
Bones That Tell a Tale Brian Switek 2011
sydferret commented on the word lunate
Your name is not Luna, is it?
July 23, 2011