crescent-shaped

Examples

• All

• Although the new moon is only crescent-shaped, it is symbolic of light and the activity of the ancestors.

  Academic text (1990)

• There are tables and chairs cut from the rock, a crescent-shaped bench.

  Blog text (1)

• A crescent-shaped window had been cut in the smaller circle.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I remembered the shape of it, sticking out into the sea, with a crescent-shaped cove on one side.

  Blog text (1)

• I reached down and touched the crescent-shaped dent in Mr. Brown's fender.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The figurines are about six inches tall and wear crescent-shaped ornaments in their noses.

  Academic text (2010)

• As this issue goes to press, silky milkweed seeds are bursting out of their crescent-shaped pods.

  Academic text (2002)

• Other than the geoglyphs, only a scattering of crescent-shaped dunes, medanos, break the "lone and level sands."

  Fiction book (1991)

• I dug into a couple of cabbage rolls and four or five plump, potato-filled dumplings, which resembled crescent-shaped ravioli, smothered in gravy.

  Academic text (1996)

• The town of Avalon was tucked into a crescent-shaped bay on Catalina Island.

Synonyms

C

crescentic

vscrescent-shaped

1 6.6

Shaped like a thin, curved moon

is the broader word for similar curved new moon shapes

S

sickle-shaped

vscrescent-shaped

1 5.3

Curved like a small hook or the crescent moon

is more neutral and focuses on a new moon curve rather than tool likeness

L

lunate

vscrescent-shaped

• Specialized

8.6

Shaped like a crescent moon

is the general term for any shape resembling a new moon

S

semilunar

vscrescent-shaped

8.3

Shaped like a half moon

is similar but can apply to less strictly half moon forms

How Curved

semicircular

1 3.7

crescent-shaped

3 3.8

arched

4 3.2

curved

6 1.0

straight

442 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology