The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
adj. Shaped like a crescent.
n. Archaeology A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period.
n. A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Crescent-shaped; resembling the crescent moon
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Crescent-shaped, or like the moon in its first quarter; having a figure formed by a part of a circle cut off by the segment of a larger circle.
In zoology, same as lunated, 2.
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adj. resembling the new moon in shape
Word Usage
"Frenum: that which holds things together: a lunate or triangular portion at the inner and hinder base of the wing in Odonata and Trichoptera; see tendo."