EGAVE

cuneus

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing.
  2. noun A wedge-shaped section of the forewing of certain heteropteran bugs.
  3. noun One of a set of wedge-shaped divisions separated by stairways, found in the Ancient Roman theatre and in mediaeval architecture.

Similar words

wedge wedge shape precuneus uncus cuneiform cuneiform bone cingulum cimbia corniculum lateral cuneiform bone

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and is of or in with equitum frisiorum calcarine

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