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Definition of Lunular
1. a. Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.
Definition of Lunular
1. Adjective. (botany) Having a form like that of the new moon; crescent-shaped. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lunular
1. lunula [adj] - See also: lunula
Medical Definition of Lunular
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunular
Literary usage of Lunular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... sagittate and straight before bursting; afterwards burst on each side, and
becoming lunular; pollen white. Germen densely hairy. ..."
2. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Asiatic Society of Bengal (1884)
"Upperside ferruginous-yellow : forewing with a medial discal transverse black
lunular waved band, which is broadest at the costal end, ..."
3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1867)
"the disk pale, the latter with a wavy transverse lunular chalybeate band with a
... sinuous blackish lines, and a submarginal lunular chalybeate line with ..."
4. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1913)
"... more remotely followed by the dentate lunular line; some fuscous subterminal
spots on fore wings. Expanse, 38 mm. Habitat: St. Jean, Maroni River, ..."
5. Papilio by New York Entomological Club (1881)
"Secondaries have two rows along margin, the outer small, lunular, the inner
rounded, except the three posterior, which are lunular, but all are smaller than ..."
6. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1887)
"PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL NOTES. Limit of the Matrix of the Nail.—Are the
nails secreted by the entire matrix, or do they spring from the lunular and ..."
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