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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.
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.
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cune-, cuneo-, cunei- +
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“cuneiform”
cuneiform (adjective) (not comparable)
Referring to the writings of many ancient languages of Mesopotamia and Persia: The cuneiform writing system was employed individual characters that were wedge-shaped.
"Cuneus" is Latin for "wedge".in Mesopotamia,
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Archeology, Archaeology
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