crescentic

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The ridges of the teeth are quite crescentic now on the outer side, and becoming better adapted to the evidently firmer food which the creature is obliged to eat.

From The Meaning of Evolution by Schmucker, Samuel Christian

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 Fewkes, Jesse Walter

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

These arms support tentacles on each side, and leave a gap between, so that the whole pattern is crescentic, or crescent-shaped, and not circular.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.

The blow-hole is transverse, crescentic, with the horns of the crescent pointing forwards.

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