Usually means: Ancient writing system using wedge-shaped.
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  1. cuneiform: Merriam-Webster
  2. cuneiform: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cuneiform: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cuneiform: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cuneiform: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cuneiform, cuneiform: Wordnik
  7. cuneiform: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cuneiform: Wiktionary
  9. cuneiform: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cuneiform: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cuneiform: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cuneiform: Dictionary.com
  13. cuneiform: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. CuneiForm (software), Cuneiform (Unicode block), Cuneiform (anatomy), Cuneiform (disambiguation), Cuneiform (language), Cuneiform (programming language), Cuneiform (script), Cuneiform: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cuneiform: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cuneiform: Rhymezone
  17. Cuneiform: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cuneiform: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Cuneiform: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. cuneiform: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cuneiform: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. cuneiform: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cuneiform: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. cuneiform: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  2. cuneiform: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cuneiform: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. cuneiform: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cuneiform: MedFriendly Glossary
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  5. cuneiform: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  6. Cuneiform (anatomy), cuneiform: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cuneiform: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Cuneiform: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

(Note: See cuneiforms as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
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 clayen tablets.
noun:  (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.

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