Noun: lunule
| Singular | lunule |
| Plural | lunules |
Sample Sentences
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A healthy lunule is usually most prominent on the thumb and may be invisible on the pinky finger.
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The architect incorporated a lunule design into the arched windows of the cathedral.
Nouns inflected like lunule
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French lunule, from Latin lūnula, diminutive of lūna (“moon”). By surface analysis, luna + -ule. See: French Nouns '
lunule', Latin Nouns '
lūnula'.