crescentic

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On the face the spots sometimes run together, and then form irregular blotches about a third of an inch long by half that breadth; while elsewhere they present an irregular crescentic arrangement.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles

As they become full-grown and mature, however, the gametocytes lose their crescentic form and assume that of an oval, and finally of a sphere.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various

The bay itself is perfectly crescentic, receiving in its centre the waters of a fine salmon stream, while its waves break upon silver sand instead of the usual shingle.

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon

These blocks are separated from the tadpole figures by crescentic lines, and above them are short parallel lines recalling the symbol of falling rain.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

In measles the lesions are larger, more vivid, more angular and indented, more frequently provided with processes, and therefore more apt to assume the crescentic arrangement, than in r�theln.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various