Usually means: Crescent-shaped; resembling a crescent moon.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word lunate:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. lunate: Merriam-Webster
  2. lunate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lunate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lunate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lunate: Vocabulary.com
  6. lunate: Wordnik
  7. lunate: Wiktionary
  8. lunate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lunate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lunate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lunate: Dictionary.com
  12. Lunate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Lunate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. lunate: Rhymezone
  15. Lunate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. lunate: FreeDictionary.org
  17. lunate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. lunate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. lunate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lunate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lunate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. lunate: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Lunate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lunate)

▸ 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
▸ noun:  (anatomy) The lunate bone

Similar:
semilunar, crescent-shaped, bicephalous, rounded, crescent, lunar, lunated, semilunate, sublunate, menisciform, more...

Opposite:
saccate, reniform, cordate

Types:
lunula, lunate bone, lunate leaf, lunate ligament, lunate cartilage, more...

Phrases:
lunate bone, lunate sulcus, lunate dislocation, lunate bones, lunate sigma, more...

Adjectives:
dislocated, caudal, aperture, proximal, carpal, displaced, left, acute, shaped, entire, dorsiflexed

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Similar:
semilunar, crescent-shaped, bicephalous, rounded, crescent, lunar, lunated, semilunate, sublunate, menisciform, more...

Opposite:
saccate, reniform, cordate

Types:
lunula, lunate bone, lunate leaf, lunate ligament, lunate cartilage, more...

Phrases:
lunate bone, lunate sulcus, lunate dislocation, lunate bones, lunate sigma, lunate epsilon, more...

Adjectives:
dislocated, caudal, aperture, proximal, carpal, displaced, left, acute, shaped, entire, dorsiflexed

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     white,     pale blue,     midnight blue, more...



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