crescentic
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The blow-hole is single, crescentic and median, as in the Delphinidae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
This fold is lightly stretched over the edges of the eyelids, and forms, as it were, a third palpebra of a crescentic shape.
From Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Henry Morley
Each of the lower molars carries two crescentic ridges.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
In the decoration last described the same crescentic figure is elaborated into its zoömorphic equivalent.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
Though it was still early twilight the wooden shutters were tightly closed, and had it not been for the light which streamed through their crescentic openings the house would have been deemed deserted.
From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Lucy Foster Madison
