cuniform
/k'ju:nɪfɔ:m/
📖 中文释义
- a. 楔形的, 楔状骨的, 楔形文字的
- n. 楔形文字, 楔状骨
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- a. Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied
- to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and
- Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.
- a. Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped
- characters, or the inscriptions in them.
- n. The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and
- Assyrian inscriptions.
- n. 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.
- n. One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the
- ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.