/kyooh nee"euh fawrm', kyooh"nee euh-/ , adj.
1. having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
2. composed of slim triangular or wedge-shaped elements, as the characters used in writing by the ancient Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others.
3. written in cuneiform characters: cuneiform inscription.
4. Anat. noting or pertaining to any of various wedge-shaped bones, as of the tarsus.
n.
5. cuneiform characters or writing.
6. a cuneiform bone.
Also, cuniform .
[ 1670-80; cune ( us ) a wedge + -I- + -FORM ]