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Word: cuneiform
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- Written in cuneiform: '''cuneiform''' script, '''cuneiform''' writing.
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Noun:
- An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clay tablets.
- anatomy A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
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