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Moony :: Moony (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.

Tharos :: Tharos (n.) A small American butterfly (Phycoides tharos) having the upper surface of the wings variegated with orange and black, the outer margins black with small white crescents; -- called also pearl crescent..

Moon :: Moon (n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

Lunular :: Lunular (a.) Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.

Crescent :: Crescent (v. t.) To adorn with crescents.

Thunderbird :: Thunderbird (n.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher..

Moonwort :: Moonwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond..

Falcated :: Falcated (a.) Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed..

Lune :: Lune (n.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles..

Ringdove :: Ringdove (n.) A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat..

Pelta :: Pelta (n.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped..

Lunule :: Lunule (n.) Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune..

Phaeton :: Phaeton (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.

Decrescent :: Decrescent (n.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.

Excrescent :: Excrescent (a.) Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.

Supercretaceous :: Supercrescent (a.) Growing on some other growing thing.

Cusp :: Cusp (n.) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

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