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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to tidal phenomena caused by the moon.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to that part of the tidal movement which is dependent on the moon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon.
  • adjective See Retard, n.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to tides caused by the moon
  • adjective Describing the difference in time between the crossing of a meridian by the moon and the subsequent high tide at that point

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin lūna, moon; see lunar + tidal.]

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