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What is a lunule?

What is a lunule? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula or lune.
  2. A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells, sometimes shaped like a double crescent, but more often heart-shaped.
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In Mysidiella newtonae n. sp., from the early Norian of the Wallowa Terrane of Oregon, the lunule is even shorter and more deeply incurved than in M. orientalis.
Notches 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.
The lunule in the southern quahog is at least as wide as high in the southern quahog, but is narrower in the northern quahog.
There is no lunule, but a large external ligament is very prominent just back of the beaks.
The lateral teeth are the stronger, and the lunule is upon the right valve only.
The pale half-moon shape at the base of each nail is called the lunule, which shows where the hardening process is not yet complete.

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