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Crescent :: Crescent (n.) A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge.

Equicrescent :: Equicrescent (a.) Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable..

Lunule :: Lunule (n.) A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells. It sometimes has the shape of a double crescent, but is oftener heart-shaped. See Illust. of Bivalve..

Cusp :: Cusp (n.) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

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

Thunderbird :: Thunderbird (n.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher..

Bicrescentic :: Bicrescentic (a.) Having the form of a double crescent.

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

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana..

Excrescential :: Excrescential (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence..

Lunule :: Lunule (n.) Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune..

Lunated :: Lunated (a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross..

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

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..

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

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state..

Moon :: Moon (n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

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

Crescent :: Crescent (v. t.) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent..

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.

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