'Medialuna' definitions:
Definition of 'Medialuna'
From: GCIDE
- Medialuna \Me"di*a*lu"na\, n. [Sp. media luna half-moon.] (Zool.) See Half-moon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'medialuna'
From: GCIDE
- Half-moon \Half"-moon`\ (-m[=oo]n`), n.
- 1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent. [1913 Webster]
- See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Zool.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (C[ae]siosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna. [1913 Webster]