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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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
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
