Definition of Lunules

1. lunule [n] - See also: lunule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunules

lunokhod
lunokhods
lunomancy
lunt
lunted
lunting
lunts
lunula
lunula of semilunar valve
lunula valvulae semilunaris
lunulae
lunular
lunulate
lunulated
lunule
lunules (current term)
lunulet
lunulets
lunulite
luny
lunyie
lunyies
lupanar
lupanars
lupanine hydroxylase
lupercalia
lupiform
lupin
lupinarian

Literary usage of Lunules

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"Five males with red in the first lunule only ; two males with the red entirely absent in all the lunules, and three with so small a number of red scales in ..."

2. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1886)
"Of the 69,5 have but one red spot, 1 has one large and one small spot ; 5 have two lunules only, 1 has three ; all have short frontal hairs. ..."

3. The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist by Natural History Society of Montreal (1858)
".Black, banded with yellowish white; hindwings, upper side, with two blue lunules and one blood-red spot at the anal angle. ..."

4. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1908)
"Without any of the transverse row of dots or basal dote or marginal lunules =ab. obsoleta, n. ab. 2. With only faintest traces of a few dots =ab. ..."

5. ... Hawaiian and Other Pacific Echini by Alexander Agassiz, Hubert Lyman Clark (1914)
"The size of the lunules may also be of use but in some cases, especially in ... Ambulacral marginal slits rarely, if ever, closed to form lunules, ..."

6. ... Revision of the Echini by Alexander Agassiz (1872)
"The tubercles covering the upper surface of the test are extremely uniform in size (except those on the edge of the lunules); they are closely packed, ..."

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