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Word: cuneiform (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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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