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Moonseed :: Moonseed (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.

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

Increscent :: Increscent (a.) Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.

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

Pelta :: Pelta (n.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped..

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

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

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

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

Measles :: Measles (n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola..

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

Lune :: Lune (n.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles..

Increscent :: Increscent (a.) Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side..

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

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

Supercretaceous :: Supercrescent (a.) Growing on some other growing thing.

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

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

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

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..

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