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crescent-shaped

ADJECTIVE
  1. resembling the new moon in shape

How To Use crescent-shaped In A Sentence

  • 5.8 Lunes and Triangles Begin by reminding students that a lune is a crescent-shaped fi gure Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The hall is shaded by a shallow half-hat of a roof which leaves a crescent-shaped interstice between it and the edge of the big carapace.
  • Its large, crescent-shaped eyes stand prominently atop the cheeks.
  • Beyond this section, the cavern narrowed a bit and descended to a lower chamber and a crescent-shaped pool of greenish water, an honest-to-goodness underground lake. The Omega Theory
  • The hymen, which medical descriptions depict as nothing more than a lunule or crescent-shaped membrane bordering the labia minora, is among the most meaningful of body parts.
  • The diagnostic feature of this species is the two short crescent-shaped ridges near the base of the labellum; these leading down to a small, brightly coloured pit, the nectary.
  • Their arms were the bow, spear, and axe, a crescent-shaped shield, called pelta, and (in early art) a helmet - the original model in the Greek mind apparently being the goddess Athena.
  • It is a shallow crescent-shaped vessel of potstone, or what is called soapstone from its soapy feel. Peter the Whaler
  • A broad, low-lying, typically crescent-shaped mound of sandy or loamy matter that is formed by the wind, especially along the windward side of a lake basin.
  • The real town of Anogi inched closer as the ferrymen plied the big oars—a free-moving ferry, this, the Hisei being too big and too trafficked to be crossed with ropes—a kind of barge that described a crescent-shaped course from shore to shore, a compromise with the current, while larger and smaller craft bound downriver went straight courses past, fishing boats and cargo boats and such. 2005
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