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[syn: wedge-shaped, cuneal, cuneiform]
2. of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cuneiform \Cu*ne"i*form\ (k?-n?"?-f?rm), Cuniform \Cu"ni*form\
(k?"n?-f?rm), a. [L. cuneus a wedge + -form: cf. F.
cunei-forme. See Coin.]
1. Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied
to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient
Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.
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2. Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped
characters, or the inscriptions in them. "A cuneiform
scholar." --Rawlinson.
[1913 Webster] Cuneiform
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cuneiform \Cu*ne"i*form\, Cuniform \Cu"ni*form\, n.
1. The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and
Assyrian inscriptions. --I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
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2. (Anat.)
(a) One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first,
second third metatarsals. They are usually designated
as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform,
mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.
(b) One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the
ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cuneiform
adj 1: shaped like a wedge [syn: wedge-shaped, cuneal,
cuneiform]
2: of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped
bones)
n 1: an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and
Persia
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "cuneiform":
arrowhead, character, cuneate, cuneated, deltoid,
demotic character, determinative, grammalogue, hieratic symbol,
hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, ideogram,
ideograph, kana, katakana, logogram, logograph, ogham, oxygonal,
phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictograph, radical, rune,
shorthand, triangular, trigonal, trilateral, wedge, word letter