lunate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period.
  2. The lunate bone.
形容词 adj.
  1. Shaped like a crescent.
    — a lunate beak

词形变化

more lunate comparative most lunate superlative lunates plural

词汇关系

衍生词
capitolunate lunate bone lunated lunately lunate sigma perilunate postlunate prelunate radiolunate scapholunate semilunate sublunate

词源

词源 1
First attested in 1777; borrowed from Latin lūnātus (“crescent-shaped”), from lūna (“moon”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
词源 2
First attested in 1777; borrowed from Latin lūnātus (“crescent-shaped”), from lūna (“moon”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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