An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia.

Dutch: spijkerschrift
Polish: pismo klinowe

Shaped like a wedge.

synonyms: cuneal, wedge-shaped.

Roget 590: writing etc. v.; written etc. v.; in writing, in black and white; under one's hand.    uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical^†.    ... show more

Roget 244: angular, bent, crooked, aduncous^†, uncinated^†, aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform^†, falcated^†; furcated^†, forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular^†; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo^†, geniculated^†; oblique etc. 217.    fusiform [Micro.], wedge-shaped, cuneiform; cuneate^†, multangular^†, oxygonal^†; triangular, trigonal^†, trilateral; quadrangular, quadrilateral; foursquare; rectangular, square, multilateral; polygonal etc. n.; cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.    ... show more

Polish: klinowaty, klinowy

Of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones).