crescent-shaped

  • 21Crescent, New York — Coordinates: 42°49′35″N 73°44′3″W / 42.82639°N 73.73417°W / 42.82639; 73.73417 …

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  • 22Crescent Lake (Dunhuang) — This article is about the Crescent Moon Lake near Dunhuang, China. For other lakes of the same name, see Crescent Moon Lake. Crescent Moon Lake Yueyaquan The lake and pavilion in June 2006. What s left of the lake is on the far right …

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  • 23crescent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. crescent shaped, lunate, moon shaped, luniform. See curvature. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. crescent moon, waxing moon, waning moon, sickle, convex figure, concave figure, half moon, demilune, meniscus,… …

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  • 24crescent — [14] Crescent is one of a wide range of words (including create, crescendo, concrete, crew, accretion, croissant, increase, and recruit) bequeathed to English by the Latin verb crēscere ‘grow’. In the case of crescent, it came in the form of the… …

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  • 25crescent — [14] Crescent is one of a wide range of words (including create, crescendo, concrete, crew, accretion, croissant, increase, and recruit) bequeathed to English by the Latin verb crēscere ‘grow’. In the case of crescent, it came in the form of the… …

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  • 26Crescent Island — For other uses, see Crescent Island (disambiguation). Crescent Island (54°1′S 37°19′W / 54.017°S 37.317°W / 54.017; 37.317) is a small, roughly crescent shaped island …

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  • 27crescent — [ krɛz(ə)nt, s ] noun 1》 the curved shape of the waxing or waning moon. 2》 a thing which has the shape of a single curve, especially when broad in the centre and tapering to a point at each end.     ↘chiefly Brit. a street or terrace of houses… …

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  • 28Crescent spot — Spot Spot (sp[o^]t), n. [Cf. Scot. & D. spat, Dan. spette, Sw. spott spittle, slaver; from the root of E. spit. See {Spit} to eject from the mouth, and cf. {Spatter}.] 1. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place… …

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  • 29-shaped — UK [ʃeɪpt] / US suffix used with many nouns to make adjectives describing the shape of something a heart shaped leaf a crescent shaped scar …

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  • 30crescent — n. [L. crescere, to grow] Crescent shaped; sickleshaped; crescentic, crescentiform adj …

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