cuneiform
- Adjective. Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- Adjective. Written in the cuneiform writing system.
- 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.
- Noun. (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
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