crescential

English

Etymology

From crescent +‎ -ial.

Adjective

crescential (comparative more crescential, superlative most crescential)

1. (rare) Crescent-shaped; crescentic.
   • 1971, Robert Farris Thompson, Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba Art at UCLA, Los Angeles, L.A.: University of California, page 6/4, column 2:

     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.

Related terms

• excrescential