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crescential

crescential adjective: crescent-shaped; crescentic.

Adjective

crescential (comparative more crescential, superlative most crescential)

  1. (rare) Crescent-shaped; crescentic.
    • And these speculations might equally apply to the enigmatic opposition of crescential motifs on the brow of edan and elsewhere within the tradition. These crescents, I think, hint of invisible threeness within twoness. Ogboni meji o di eta.1971, Robert Farris Thompson, Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba Art at UCLA, Los Angeles, L.A.: University of California, page 6/4, column 2

Forms of crescential

comparativemore crescential
superlativemost crescential

Origin of crescential

From crescent + -ial.

Questions about crescential

What does crescential mean?
Crescential means crescent-shaped; crescentic.
What part of speech is crescential?
Crescential is an adjective.

Words near crescential in the dictionary

  1. crescentades
  2. crescentchest
  3. crescentchests
  4. crescented
  5. crescentiaceous
  6. crescential
  7. crescentic
  8. crescentiform
  9. crescentin
  10. crescenting
  11. crescentins

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