Definition of crescent

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Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.

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Lunated :: Lunated (a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross..
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.
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.
Excrescent :: Excrescent (a.) Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
Supercretaceous :: Supercrescent (a.) Growing on some other growing thing.
Lunule :: Lunule (n.) Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune..
Decrescent :: Decrescent (a.) Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon..
Lunule :: Lunule (n.) A small or narrow crescent.
Crescent :: Crescent (v. t.) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent..
Lune :: Lune (n.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles..
Decrescent :: Decrescent (n.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.
Moonwort :: Moonwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond..
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople..
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..
Concavo-convex :: Concavo-convex (a.) Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent..
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants..
Gourd Tree :: Gourd tree () A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America..
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..
Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) A crescent.
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