A shape quality inhering in a circular disk by virtue of the bearer's having a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points (usually in such a manner that the enclosed shape does not include the center of the original circle). [ Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent ]

Synonyms: crescentic

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Subsets

value_slim, cell_quality

has related synonym

lunate

bow-shaped

id

PATO:0001870

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