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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
2. Pertaining to or versed in the ancient wedge-shaped
characters, or the inscriptions in them ``A cuneiform
scholar.'' --Rawlinson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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).
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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cuneiform
adj : (anatomy) of or relating to the tarsal bones
n : an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and
Persia
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