CUNEIFORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cuneiform mean? 

• CUNEIFORM (noun)
  The noun CUNEIFORM has 1 sense:

1. an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia

  Familiarity information: CUNEIFORM used as a noun is very rare.

• CUNEIFORM (adjective)
  The adjective CUNEIFORM has 2 senses:

1. shaped like a wedge

2. of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones)

  Familiarity information: CUNEIFORM used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUNEIFORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cuneiform" is a kind of...):

script (a particular orthography or writing system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cuneiform"):

Babylonian (the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written)

• CUNEIFORM (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shaped like a wedge

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

cuneal; cuneiform; wedge-shaped

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Pertainym:

tarsal (any bone of the tarsus)

 Context examples 

The second wedge-shaped bone between the internal and external cuneiforms bones in the distal row of the tarsus.

(Middle Cuneiform Bone of the Foot, NCI Thesaurus)

The nine cartilages of the larynx, including the cricoid, thyroid and epiglottic, and two each of arytenoid, corniculate and cuneiform.

(Laryngeal Cartilage, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

One of three (medial, intermediate, or lateral cuneiform) bones in the foot medial to the cuboid bone and between either the first, second or third metatarsal bone and the navicular bone.

(Cuneiform Bone of the Foot, NCI Thesaurus)