lunula

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• The study has also resulted in a clearer picture of the biogeography and biostratigraphy of the Monophorasteridae, and their great significance in the evolution of lunulate sand dollars in the Americas.
• A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment. Caesars’ Wives
• The vane guide plate is inserted in the lunular hollow formed by the curved walls of the vane.
• The whitish crescent moon at the nail base, under the nail plate, is called the lunula, and the tissue overlapping the nail at the base is the cuticle. HowStuffWorks Daily Feed
• The whitish, half-moon-shaped area at the base of your nail is called the lunula (LOO-nu-luh).
• They also have important biogeographic implications, given that lunulate sand dollars are today rather rare in the regions in which monophorasterids were once common.
• Expression of ribs, and the lunular pit in Bothrocorbula, are used to a lesser extent for species discrimination.
• It is situated precisely in that same lunula in which you find the form of the gap, the rim.
• _Marchantia polymorpha_ and _Lunularia_ spread largely by the gemmae formed in the special gemma-cups on the thallus, and occur commonly in greenhouses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment. Caesars’ Wives