crescent-shaped in English

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      "form": "more crescent-shaped",
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          "ref": "1940 December, “Notes and News: Stroudley Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 666",
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          "code": "mk",
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          "sense": "crescent-shaped",
          "word": "српест"
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    {
      "form": "more crescent-shaped",
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        "comparative"
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      "sense": "crescent-shaped",
      "word": "српест"
    }
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"crescent-shaped" meaning in English

Adjective