lunula
noun
something shaped like a narrow crescent, as the small, pale area at the base of the fingernail.
lunulae
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pluralof lunula.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The upper side of the lower wings has an abbreviated series of marginal points on the outside of an arched series of violet-coloured whitish lunulae.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King
These lunulae are found in profusion all over Ireland.
From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox
