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luni-
- a combining form meaning “moon,” used in the formation of compound words:
lunitidal.
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Forty-nine years make a convenient luni-solar cycle, reconciling the lunar month and the tropical solar year.
We speak of the interval between the transit of the moon and the time of high water as the luni-tidal interval.
The year of the Jews, even from their coming out of Egypt, was Luni-solar.
I hoped to be put on the Luni Protective Works this cold weather, but there's no saying how long the famine may keep us.
The eighth month of the Hindoo luni-solar year, corresponding to part of October and part of November.
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