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Definition of Crescent-shaped
1. Adjective. Resembling the new moon in shape.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crescent-shaped
Literary usage of Crescent-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1885)
"Semi-Lunar and Crescent-Shaped Tools. SEMI-LUNAR AND CRESCENT.SHAPED TOOLS. BY PH.
JJ VALENTINI. ABOUT six years ago two different works came to my hands, ..."
2. The Conquest of Canada by George Warburton (1849)
"... it is crescent-shaped, convex to the north ; to the south-east and south-west
its extremities are narrow points: the length through the curve is 360 ..."
3. Paludism by Alphonse Laveran (1893)
"crescent-shaped bodies. Relapse (with the tertian, afterwards quotidian type).
Result of the examination of the blood : Spherical bodies ..."
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