1) Asterid dicot genus 2) Genus crescentia 3) German girl name 4) Middle High German literature 5) Tropical fruit 
[romance] Crescentia is an Old High German chivalric romance, written in Kaiserchronik about 1150. Other versions appeared in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, in prose and verse. Numerous romances, such as Le Bone Florence of Rome, are classified as belonging to the `Crescentia cycle` because of the common plot; it is the oldest kno...
[n] - a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae
genus Crescentia noun a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches