lunate

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Noun

lunate noun

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 lunate bone

Adjective

lunate adjective

Shaped like a crescent.“a lunate beak”

Related terms

Synonyms

semilunar crescent-shaped crescent rounded bicephalous aperture dislocated lunar lunated semilunate sublunate menisciform crescentic crescentiform lunular half-mooned

Associated

hamate scaphoid capitate trapezium carpal sulcus peristome trapezoid palmar proximal fossa flake

Rhymes

afternoon eight knew nate soon ate

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