a. [f. as prec. + -ED.]

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  † 1.  Crescent-shaped. (Cf. LUNULAR a.) Obs.

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1705.  Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XXV. 1956. It’s externally piped towards the Mouth, and above these lunulated.

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1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v. Leaf, Lunulated leaf, one in form of a crescent.

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1772.  Forster, in Phil. Trans., LX. 412. The throat … blackish,… but mixed with white lunulated spots.

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1797.  Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), III. 436/2. The antheræ are lunulated, or shaped like a crescent.

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  2.  Marked with lunulæ or crescent-shaped spots.

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a. 1798.  Tennant, Journ. fr. Lond. to I. of Wight (1801), II. 73. I saw here the lunulated Gilt-head and ancient Wrasse.

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1836.  Yarrell, Brit. Fishes (1859), II. 149. Lunulated Gilt-head.

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1848.  J. Gould, Birds Austral., IV. 72. Melithreptus lunulatus, Lunulated Honey-eater.

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1888.  P. L. Sclater, Catal. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV. 317. Whole body below lunulated with black.

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