How To Use lunule In A Sentence
- Durham's inclusion of a nonlunulate, Iheringiella, in the family also meant that Labille's and Mortensen's most conspicuous diagnostic character, the anal lunule, no longer formed part of the diagnosis.
- [CRASSATELLA GIBBESH] "Shell somewhat triangular, thick, concentrically furrowed; buccal side rounded; anal side somewhat beaked, angular, with a longitudinal ridge; umbones incurved; lunule somewhat excavated. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
- The byssal invagination was called a lunule by Cox.
- [VENUS CRIBRARI] Shell thick, medium size, slightly ventricose, furnished upon the outside by about twenty-five sharp lamelliform concentric and recurved ribs, crenulated upon the umbonal side; ribbed or ridged transversely on the ventral side, the ridges extending across to the adjacent rib; lunule crenulated. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
- In rare cases, different DIMSUFs yield diverse meanings: lune ` moon '> lunettes ` pair of spectacles' but also > lunule ` lunula, 'the white area at the base of the fingernail being crescent-shaped. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
- Notches (‘open’ lunules) are ambulacral lunules that form close enough to the ambitus that the ambitus is unable to close over the distal part of the notch to form a closed lunule.
- It shows a lunule and extensions of flank ribs with asymmetric cross section.
- Other falcate mylilids like Lycettia, Coxesia and Falcimytilus all lack radial or divaricating or half-divaricating surface sculpture and have a more truncated anterior shell flank with a well-defined lunule.
- The wide lunule is clearly independent of the extreme widening of the test, because in A. coloniensis, the test is much wider than in A. alatus, but without concomitant widening of the lunule.
- Apart from the width to length ratio, the paratype of the new species seems to have a less prominent ridge around the anal lunule, and slightly narrower interambulacra on the oral surface than A. coloniensis.
