lunate

(lū'nāt') also lu·nat·ed (-nā'tĭd)
adj.
Shaped like a crescent.

n.
Archaeology. A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period.

[Latin lūnātus, past participle of lūnāre, to bend like a crescent, from lūna, moon.]

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(lū'nāt')
adj.

Shaped like a crescent.

1. moon-shaped or crescentic.
2. the lunate bone.

See words rhyming with "lunate."