noun. A small crescent-shaped structure or marking, especially the white area at the base of a fingernail that resembles a half-moon.

noun. In entomology, a small depression on the frons of a dipterous insect.

noun. Something which is shaped like a little moon or narrow crescent; a lunule or lunulet.

noun. Specifically— The free crescentic edge and adjoining thin part of a semilunar valve of the heart.

noun. The small white semilunar mark at the base of the human fingernails.

noun. A crescentic impression on some bivalve shells; a lunule.

noun. A small semicircular or crescentic spot of color; a lunulet.

noun. [capitalized] A generic name given by Hitchcock to ichnolites of uncertain character.

noun. In mathematics, a lune.

noun. Same as lunule.

noun. Something shaped like a crescent or half-moon; especially the pale area at the base of the fingernail.

noun. a crescent-shaped metal ornament of the Bronze Age

noun. the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail

"Near the root of the nail, the papillæ are smaller, less vascular, and have no regular arrangement, and here the tissue of the nail is not firmly adherent to the connective-tissue stratum but only in contact with it; hence this portion is of a whiter color, and is called the lunula on account of its shape."

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