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for "little moon") may refer to: *

Lunula (amulet) A lunula (plural (grammar), pl. lunulae) was a crescent moon shaped pendant worn by girls in ancient Rome. Girls ideally wore them as an apotropaic amulet, the equivalent of the boy's bulla (amulet), bulla. In the popular belief the Ancient Rome, ...

, a Roman amulet worn by girls, the equivalent of the bulla worn by boys *

Gold lunula A gold lunula ( pl. gold lunulae) was a distinctive type of late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, andmost oftenearly Bronze Age necklace, collar, or pectoral shaped like a crescent moon. Most are from Prehistoric Ireland. They are normally flat and t ...

, a specific kind of archaeological solid collar or necklace from the Bronze Age or later * Lunula, the crescent-moon decoration on an ancient Roman calceus senatorius *

Lunula (anatomy) The lunula (: lunulae; ) is the crescent-shaped whitish area of the bed of a fingernail or toenail. In humans, it appears by week 14 of gestation, and has a primary structural role in defining the free edge of the distal nail plate (the part of ...

, the pale half-moon shape at the base of a fingernail *

Lunule (bivalve) A lunule (from the Latin meaning small moon or crescent moon) is an anatomical feature which is found in the exterior surface of the shells of some species of clams, bivalve mollusks, as for example in the family Veneridae and in the genus ''Asc ...

, a crescent-moon shaped area on the shells of some marine bivalves * ''

Calophasia lunula ''Calophasia lunula'' is a Palearctic species of noctuid moth known by the common names toadflax moth and toadflax brocade moth. Technical description and variation ''C. lunula'' Hufn. (= ''linariae'' Esp.) (29 b). Forewing bluish grey, suffu ...

'', a species of moth * ''

Chaetodon lunula The raccoon butterflyfish (''Chaetodon lunula''), also known as the crescent-masked butterflyfish, lunule butterflyfish, halfmoon butterflyfish, moon butterflyfish, raccoon butterfly, raccoon, raccoon coralfish, and redstriped butterflyfish, is ...

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sand dollar Sand dollars (also known as sea cookies or snapper biscuits in New Zealand and Brazil, or pansy shells in South Africa) are species of flat, burrowing sea urchins belonging to the order Clypeasteroida. Some species within the order, not quite a ...

* A set of rounded

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