crescentic

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In transverse section it is crescentic, since the septal wall bulges into its cavity.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

In the decoration last described the same crescentic figure is elaborated into its zoömorphic equivalent.

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

Each of the lower molars carries two crescentic ridges.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

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

Selenodont, sē-lē′nō-dont, adj. having crescentic ridges on the crown, as molar teeth.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various