cune-, cuneo-, cunei- +

(Latin: wedge, wedge shaped)


cuneal
Wedge-shaped or shaped like a wedge.
cuneate
Wedge-shaped, a reference especially to describe a leaf or petal base that is narrowly triangular.
cuneiform
1. With the narrowly triangular shape of a wedge.
2. Being a character, or characters, formed by the arrangement of small wedge-shaped elements and used in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian writing.
3. A description of the clay tablets on which cuneiform script was written.
4. A description of any of three wedge-shaped bones of the ankle.
5. A wedge-shaped bone, especially one of three such bones in the tarsus of the foot.
cuneocuboid
Referring to the cuneiform and cuboid bones.
cuneus
Any shape that is triangular in cross section: a wedge, wedge shaped, triangle, trigon, trilateral.

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