CRESCENT-SHAPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crescent-shaped mean? 

• CRESCENT-SHAPED (adjective)
  The adjective CRESCENT-SHAPED has 1 sense:

1. resembling the new moon in shape

  Familiarity information: CRESCENT-SHAPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRESCENT-SHAPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling the new moon in shape

Synonyms:

crescent; crescent-shaped; lunate; semilunar

Similar:

rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)

 Context examples 

A broad, thin, crescent-shaped fold consisting of two layers of peritoneum extending from the notch of the anterior margin of the liver to the anterior abdominal wall and diaphragm.

(Falciform Ligament, NCI Thesaurus)

A crescent-shaped wedge of cartilaginous material that serves as a cushion in the knee, between the tuberosities of the femur and the tibia.

(Meniscus, NCI Thesaurus)

With wonder and admiration, Alleyne, leaning over the bulwarks, gazed at the forest of masts, the swarm of boats darting hither and thither on the bosom of the broad curving stream, and the gray crescent-shaped city which stretched with many a tower and minaret along the western shore.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep Earth than previously estimated, according to a first-of-its-kind seismic study that spans the Mariana Trench, a crescent-shaped trench in the Western Pacific that measures 1,500 miles long and is the deepest ocean trench in the world.

(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)