Frontal fissure: Diptera; the impressed line extending from the frontal lunule to the border of the mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Frontal suture: Diptera; separates the frontal lunule from that part of the head above it: in Coleopteran; = clypeal suture. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Frontal lunule: Diptera; an oval or crescentic space above the base of antennae in Cyclorrhapha, bounded by the frontal suture. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
(Fig. 222.) Shell smooth, moderately inflated, thick, beaks prominent, lorsal margin depressed; anterior margin rounded, lunule anceolate. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Shell small, thick, compressed, smooth or concentrically furrowed; lunule impressed; ligament external; hinge teeth 2 -- 2; anterior tooth in the right valve large and thick. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
In rare cases, different DIMSUFs yield diverse meanings: lune ` moon '> lunettes ` pair of spectacles' but also > lunule ` lunula, 'the white area at the base of the fingernail being crescent-shaped. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1] Reference
Lunula: a small lunule or crescent. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
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