Usually means: Valves shaped like a crescent.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. semilunar: Merriam-Webster
  2. semilunar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. semilunar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. semilunar: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. semilunar: Wordnik
  7. semilunar: Wiktionary
  8. semilunar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. semilunar: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. semilunar: Dictionary.com
  11. Semilunar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Semilunar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. semilunar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. semilunar: Rhymezone
  15. Semilunar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. semilunar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. semilunar: FreeDictionary.org
  18. semilunar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. semilunar: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. semilunar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. semilunar: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. semilunar: Medical dictionary

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  1. Semilunar: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (semilunar)

▸ adjective:  Shaped like a half-moon; crescent-shaped.
▸ noun:  (anatomy) The lunate bone, or semilunar bone.

Similar:
lunate, crescent-shaped, bicephalous, crescent, rounded, semilunary, semicrescentic, half-mooned, semilunate, menisciform, more...

Opposite:
antilunar, non-lunar, sublunar

Types:
new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waning gibbous, full moon, waning crescent, third quarter, waxing gibbous, more...

Phrases:
semilunar valves, semilunar valve, semilunar ganglion, semilunar cartilage, semilunar cartilages, more...

Adjectives:
external, internal, aortic, aperture, large, pulmonary, more, somewhat, inferior, lateral, left

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Similar:
lunate, crescent-shaped, bicephalous, crescent, rounded, semilunary, semicrescentic, half-mooned, semilunate, menisciform, more...

Opposite:
antilunar, non-lunar, sublunar

Types:
new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waning gibbous, full moon, waning crescent, third quarter, waxing gibbous, more...

Phrases:
semilunar valves, semilunar valve, semilunar ganglion, semilunar cartilage, semilunar cartilages, semilunar notch, semilunar fold, semilunar line, semilunar hiatus, semilunar bone, semilunar cusp, more...

Adjectives:
external, internal, aortic, aperture, large, pulmonary, more, somewhat, inferior, lateral, left



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