Lunate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Shaped like a crescent.
  • n. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Shaped like a crescent.
  • n. A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Crescent-shaped; resembling the crescent moon
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. resembling the new moon in shape
  • Equivalent
    rounded    lunated   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    lunated    lunate bone