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Crescent :: Crescent (n.) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.

Falcated :: Falcated (a.) Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed..

Croissante :: Croissante (a.) Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.

Gourd Tree :: Gourd tree () A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America..

Crescentic :: Crescentic (a.) Crescent-shaped.

Horn :: Horn (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.

Bicornous :: Bicornous (a.) Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.

Ringdove :: Ringdove (n.) A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat..

Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) A crescent.

Phaeton :: Phaeton (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore..

Demilune :: Demilune (n.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

Decrescent :: Decrescent (a.) Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon..

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal..

Moonwort :: Moonwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond..

Moony :: Moony (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.

Lunulet :: Lunulet (n.) A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects..

Excrescence :: Excrescence (n.) An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant..

Decrescent :: Decrescent (n.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.

Lunule :: Lunule (n.) A small or narrow crescent.

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