Letter L

Lunule

1. The crescent-shaped area at the base of a fingernail or toenail.

2. Any small crescent- or moon-shaped area or structure. Borrowed from the French lunule, from the Latin lunula, the diminuitive of luna, the moon.

Also called the lunula

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