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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period.
2. 2
   The lunate bone.

Adjective

1. 1
   Shaped like a crescent.

   "a lunate beak"

Adjective

1. 1
   resembling the new moon in shape wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

astralastronomicastronomicalastrophysicalbicorncrescent

Etymology

First attested in 1777; borrowed from Latin lūnātus (“crescent-shaped”), from lūna (“moon”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Related phrases

lunate bonelunate sigma

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