lunate
Shaped like crescents
Lunate means crescent-shaped or resembling a half-moon.
The term appears most often in anatomy and archaeology: the lunate bone is one of the small bones in the wrist, and lunate blades are crescent-shaped stone tools.
The lunate marking on the moth's wing helped identify the species.
Wrist anatomy term
- scaphoidCarpal bone, thumb-side
- capitateEnlarged at the tip
- trapezoidPolygon with parallel pair
- trapeziumQuadrilateral without parallel sides
wrist · metacarpal · phalanges · carpus · articulation · synovial · joint · ligament
carpal
Wrist anatomy term
trapezium · wrist · metacarpal · phalanges · carpus · articulation · synovial · joint · ligament · tendon
moon
Natural planetary satellite
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- crescent-shapedCurved like moon's phase
- curvedSmoothly bent, not angular
arc · bow · cusp · horned · gibbous · waxing · waning · croissant · demilune · semicircular
pendant
Suspended jewelry ornament
neolithic · artifact · ceremonial · talisman · necklace · jade · prehistoric · adornment · funerary
- bonesskull, femur, tibia, skulls, humerus
- lunar cyclesfull moon, new moon, crescent moon, half moon, waxing crescent
- arm boneshumerus, radius, ulna, carpals, metacarpals
- microlithsgeometric, trapeze, segment, crescent, needle point
- short bonescarpals, tarsals, capitate, scaphoid, trapezium
- tail finsforked, rounded, truncate, fan tail, lanceolate
lunateangular
Sharp-edged or rawboned
angulate · straight · rectilinear · linear · polygonal
- lunar eclipseEarth blocks sunlight reaching moon
- lunar calendarsTimekeeping by moon cycles
- lunar landingSpacecraft alighting on moon
- Lunar New YearFestival marking moon-calendar's beginning
- lunar moduleSpacecraft for surface landings
- lunar cratersImpact formations on moon