| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| lunate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | lu·nate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l  n t |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also lu·nat·ed (-nt d) |
| ADJECTIVE: | Shaped like a crescent. | | NOUN: | Archaeology A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin l ntus, past participle of lnre, to bend like a crescent, from lna, moon. See leuk- in Appendix I.
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