crescentic
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The shape was semilunar, crescentic or approximately that of the sector of a circle.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook
The two crescentic designs in plate cxxxv, a, are regarded as butterflies.
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 Jesse Walter Fewkes
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 œsophageal orifice is small, and guarded by a strong crescentic or horseshoe-like band of muscular fibres, supposed to be the cause of the difficulty of vomiting in the horse.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
In the porpoises, grampuses, &c., they are united into a single crescentic opening.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
