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semicircular
adjective as in crescent
Example Sentences
Large, semicircular tubes mounted to the mirrors turn into reflected rings, which appear to float in visual space at topsy-turvy angles.
"The dramatic increase in the average evolution rate of semicircular canals" within these apes may illuminate that "the rapid evolution of bipedalism in the human lineage in response to gradual global cooling."
However, the heavy compression and distortion of the skulls obscured the bony ear region and led previous researchers to believe that the delicate semicircular canals were not preserved.
On the night of April 11, a torchlight parade of a few thousand people, with bands and banners, assembled on the semicircular driveway in front of the Executive Mansion.
Laure Beccuau, the Paris prosecutor, told reporters at the scene that the blast appeared to have started in the building itself, which sits on the corner of a semicircular plaza, next to the ValdeGrâce church.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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