a. Nat. Hist. [a. mod.L. lūnulāt-us: see LUNULA and -ATE2.] = LUNULATED.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., III. v. (1765), 178. Lunulate, Moon-shaped; when they are round, and hollowed at the Base, and the Lower Part has Angles.

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1816.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1818), II. 407. Another cavity of a lunulate shape.

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1847.  Hardy, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. 253. The fifth [segment] with a deep lunulate impression.

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1848.  J. Gould, Birds Austral., IV. 57. A lunulate mark of white on either side of the neck.

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1852.  Dana, Crust., I. 200. Crest entire, lunulate, sublateral.

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1866.  in Gray, 1st Less. Bot., Gloss.

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  So Lunulation, a lunular or lunulate spot.

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1888.  P. L. Sclater, Catal. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV. 318. Well-marked black lunulations on the breast [etc.].

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