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(entomology) A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.
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(Christianity, chiefly Catholicism and Anglicanism) A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
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(Hawaii) A foreman on a plantation.
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(chiefly science fiction or poetic) The name of Earth's moon; Moon.
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(Roman mythology) The sister of Aurora and Sol; the goddess of the moon; equivalent to the Greek Selene.
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A female given name from Latin.
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(heraldry, rare) Argent (silver), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
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(obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Silver.
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