Usually means: Moon partially encircling another object.
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  1. circumcrescent: Merriam-Webster
  2. circumcrescent: Wordnik
  3. circumcrescent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  4. circumcrescent: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (circumcrescent)

▸ adjective:  (botany) That grows around something
▸ adjective:  (botany) Synonym of epibolic

Similar:
circinate, circinal, supercrescent, circumscissile, lunulate, circumsaccate, crescentiaceous, cymoid, peripetalous, accrescent, more...

Opposite:
decrescent, diminishing, decreasing, shrinking, contracting

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Similar:
circinate, circinal, supercrescent, circumscissile, lunulate, circumsaccate, crescentiaceous, cymoid, peripetalous, accrescent, more...

Opposite:
decrescent, diminishing, decreasing, shrinking, contracting



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