A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
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.
Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
Written in the cuneiform writing system.
The sphenoid bone.
A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles; the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.
Having a wedged shape.
Of or relating to the sphenoid bone which forms the base of the cranium, behind the eye and below the front part of the brain. It has two pairs of broad lateral ‘wings’ and a number of other projections, and contains two air-filled sinuses.