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crescentic

adj

Etymology

From crescent (“(growing) half moon”) + -ic. More at crescent.

  1. derived from *ḱer-✻
  2. derived from crēscēns
  3. derived from creissant
  4. derived from cressaunt
  5. inherited from cressaunt
  6. suffixed as crescentic — “crescent + ic”

Definitions

  1. Growing, increasing, gaining size, etc.

  2. Crescent-shaped.

    • Twin dimples of the crescentic type came down her tanned cheeks on the sides of her mournful mouth.

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Derived

bicrescentic, crescentic nephritis, noncrescentic, subcrescentic

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA