interlunar

[ in-ter-loo-ner ]

adjective

1. pertaining to the moon's monthly period of invisibility between the old moon and the new.

Word History and Origins

Origin of interlunar¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; inter- + lunar

Example Sentences

It hangs vacant, one may say; extinct, like the Moon in her vacant interlunar cave.

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