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demilune

N ดวงจันทร์ รูป ครึ่งวงกลม crescent

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DEMILUNE

Dem "i *lune `, n. Etym: [F. demi-lune. ]

1. (Fort. )

Defn: A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.

2. (Physiol.)

Defn: A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

Note: Each crescent is made of polyhedral cells which under some circumstances are supposed to give rise to new salivary cells.

New American Oxford Dictionary

demilune

demilune |ˈdɛmɪluːn | ▶noun a crescent or half-circle, or a thing of this shape. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from French demi-lune, literally ‘half-moon ’.

Oxford Dictionary

demilune

demilune |ˈdɛmɪluːn | ▶noun a crescent or half-circle, or a thing of this shape. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from French demi-lune, literally ‘half-moon ’.