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Lunate

adjective
1.
Resembling the new moon in shape.  Synonyms: crescent, crescent-shaped, semilunar.



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"Lunate" Quotes from Famous Books



... presented a project (the first in order of date), which consisted in constructing upon the Eclat reef a semi-lunate dike, and a breakwater at Cape Heve. Moreover, upon the emergent parts of the Eclat reef and heights of the roadstead he proposed to ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 • Various

... from the angle of the mouth to the under part of the ear: neck covered with small scales: frill arising from the hinder part of the head, just over the front of the ears, and attached to the sides of the neck and extending down to the front part of the chest, supported above by a lunate cartilage arising from the hinder dorsal part of the ear, and in the centre by a bone, which extends about half its length: this bone appears to be an elongation of the side fork of the bone of the tongue, but it could not be determined with certainty ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] • Phillip Parker King



Words linked to "Lunate" :   crescent, lunate bone, rounded, semilunar, crescent-shaped



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