crescentic

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The nostrils open separately or by a single crescentic aperture, near the vertex of the head.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" 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

When viewed from in front the right gland is triangular and the left crescentic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

This fold is lightly stretched over the edges of the eyelids, and forms, as it were, a third palpebra of a crescentic shape. 

From Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Morley, Henry

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 Cook, Sherburne F.