crescentic
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The patch may consist, therefore, of small, discrete, punched-out ulcers, or of one or more continuous ulcers, segmented, crescentic or serpiginous in shape.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
The body is crescentic and covered with spines, and only a single leg, with claws, is represented.
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 Fewkes, Jesse Walter
As they become full-grown and mature, however, the gametocytes lose their crescentic form and assume that of an oval, and finally of a sphere.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
The ridges of the teeth are quite crescentic now on the outer side, and becoming better adapted to the evidently firmer food which the creature is obliged to eat.
From The Meaning of Evolution by Schmucker, Samuel Christian
The shape was semilunar, crescentic or approximately that of the sector of a circle.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
