crescentic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From crescent (“(growing) half moon”) + -ic. More at crescent.
Adjective
[edit]crescentic (comparative more crescentic, superlative most crescentic)
- Growing, increasing, gaining size, etc.
- Crescent-shaped.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 25:
- Twin dimples of the crescentic type came down her tanned cheeks on the sides of her mournful mouth.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- bicrescentic
- crescentic nephritis (a kidney disease)
- noncrescentic
- subcrescentic