Definition of Lunulae

1. lunula [n] - See also: lunula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunulae

lunkheaded
lunkheads
lunkish
lunks
lunky
lunokhod
lunokhods
lunomancy
lunt
lunted
lunting
lunts
lunula
lunula of semilunar valve
lunula valvulae semilunaris
lunulae (current term)
lunular
lunulate
lunulated
lunule
lunules
lunulet
lunulets
lunulite
luny
lunyie
lunyies
lupanar
lupanars

Literary usage of Lunulae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anthropological Studies by Anne Walbank Buckland (1891)
"... Corneto, and Cornwall—The Golden Armour of Mold—lunulae in Ireland and in Corneto—Buttons and Fibulae—"Were they Manufactured in Ireland, ..."

2. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1860)
"... lunulae is deducible from this ordinance, or whether the ... Jt is certain that pendent lunulae made a part of the rich ornaments of the ..."

3. An Introduction to the Study of Prehistoric Art by Ernest Albert Parkyn (1915)
"the whole the same as that used in decorating the lunulae or Crescents. ... Similar punctures are visible on two lunulae found in Scotland, one at Coulton ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1908)
"This is, I believe, the only instance of an associated object found with lunulae. In several instances (see list) two, three, ..."

5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"... and then the series of lunulae, dashes and spots as on the fore wings, ... thus increasing the white spaces; the submarginal lunulae and spots, ..."

6. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"As in the tricuspid valves, so here, while the pressure of the blood is borne by the tougher bodies of the several valves, each two thin adjacent lunulae, ..."

7. The Arts in Early England by Gerard Baldwin Brown (1915)
"It is a collar of beaten silver, reminiscent of the golden lunulae, common in the Early Bronze Age in Ireland and found occasionally in Great Britain and on ..."

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