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lunar year | lunaria | lunaria annua | lunarian | lunary | lunate | lunate bone | lunated | lunatic | lunatic fringe | lunation

lunate

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lu=nate

CIDE DICTIONARY

lunatea. [L. lunatus crescent-shaped, p. p. of lunare to bend like a crescent, fr. luna the moon.].
     Crescent-shaped; resembling the crescent moon; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lunate, adj. & n.
--adj. crescent-shaped.
--n. a crescent-shaped prehistoric implement etc.

Idiom
lunate bone a crescent-shaped bone in the wrist.
Etymology
L lunatus f. luna moon

ROGET THESAURUS

lunate

Curvature

N curvature, curvity, curvation, incurvature, incurvity, incurvation, bend, flexure, flexion, flection, conflexure, crook, hook, bought, bending, deflection, deflexion, inflection, inflexion, concameration, arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep, curl, curling, bough, recurvity, recurvation, sinuosity, kink, carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck, parabola, hyperbola, helix, spiral, catenary, festoon, conchoid, cardioid, caustic, tracery, arched ceiling, arched roof, bay window, bow window, sine curve, spline, spline curve, spline function, obliquity, curved, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, devex, devious, recurved, recurvous, crump, bowed, vaulted, hooked, falciform, falcated, semicircular, crescentic, sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid, luniform, lunular, semilunar, conchoidal, helical, double helical, spiral, kinky, cordiform, cordated, cardioid, heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped, kidney-shaped, reniform, lentiform, lenticular, bow-legged, oblique, circular, aduncated, arclike, arcuate, arched, beaked, bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute, clypeate, clypeiform, cymbiform, embowed, galeiform, hamate, hamiform, hamous, hooked, linguiform, lingulate, lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid, scutate, scaphoid, uncate, unguiculate, unguiform.


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