cuneus
noun
a wedge-shaped convolution on the medial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum.
cunei
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pluralof cuneus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The85 party I came with is down below listening to an archæological lecture on the cunei, the podium, the vomitorium, and heaven knows what all, in which I am not interested.
From Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania by Percy Favor Bicknell
It is so called because the letters appear to to be formed of little cunei, wedges, or nails.
From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various
She could hardly have been more dismayed if one of Caesar's cunei, or wedges of soldiers, had made a charge against her.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Travellers at an early date had noticed these inscriptions at Persepolis and elsewhere, and while some compared the forms of the characters composing them to arrows, others considered them to be wedges, cunei in Latin.
From A Primer of Assyriology by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Different tribes had particular cunei allotted to them.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
