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

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state..

Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped..

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..

Bicrescentic :: Bicrescentic (a.) Having the form of a double crescent.

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..

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

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.

Decrescent :: Decrescent (a.) Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon..

Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Shaped like a crescent.

Lunated :: Lunated (a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross..

Accrescent :: Accrescent (a.) Growing; increasing.

Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.

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

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

Porbeagle :: Porbeagle (n.) A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark..

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal..

Measles :: Measles (n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola..

Lunulet :: Lunulet (n.) A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects..

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