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In the decoration last described the same crescentic figure is elaborated into its zoömorphic equivalent.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

The blow-hole is transverse, crescentic, with the horns of the crescent pointing forwards.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

Each of the lower molars carries two crescentic ridges.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

On the face the spots sometimes run together, and then form irregular blotches about a third of an inch long by half that breadth; while elsewhere they present an irregular crescentic arrangement.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles

As they become full-grown and mature, however, the gametocytes lose their crescentic form and assume that of an oval, and finally of a sphere.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various