lunate
adjective
Also lunated being in the shape of a crescent; crescent-shaped.
sublunate
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a word derived from
lunate.
Example Sentences
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More slender, rarely over six or seven inches high; sterile segment about two inches broad, its divisions few, broadly ovate, the lowest sublunate.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
Thallus oblong with rounded lobes, distinctly areolate and porose, with imbricate sublunate scales beneath; gemmæ in crescent-shaped receptacles.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
