Crescentic vs Demilune - What's the difference?
crescentic | demilune |
growing, increasing, gaining size etc.
Crescent-shaped.
* 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 25:
(of furniture) In the shape of a half-moon, i.e. semicircular.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 9, author=Wendy Moonan, title=Relics of the 19th Century, in a Sentimental Mood, work=New York Times
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A fortification constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin.
(biology) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.
As adjectives the difference between crescentic and demilune
is that crescentic is growing, increasing, gaining size etc while demilune is in the shape of a half-moon, i.e. semicircular.As a noun demilune is
a fortification constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin.crescentic
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(en adjective)- Twin dimples of the crescentic type came down her tanned cheeks on the sides of her mournful mouth.
Synonyms
* crescentDerived terms
* crescentic nephritis (a kidney disease)Anagrams
*demilune
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