Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Curved and tapering to a point; sickle-shaped.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Hooked; curved like a scythe or sickle; falciform: specifically applied in anatomy, zoölogy, and botany to a falciform part or organ having two sharp and nearly parallel edges, curved in one plane and meeting at a point.
- n. A figure resembling a sickle, formed by two curves bending the same way and meeting in a point at the apex, the base terminating in a straight margin.
Wiktionary
- adj. Shaped like a sickle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Hooked or bent like a sickle; ; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. curved like a sickle
Etymologies
- Latin falx (“sickle”) + -ate (“resembling”). (Wiktionary)
- Latin falcātus, from falx, falc-, sickle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mature foliage consists of phyllodes, which may be straight or falcate, acute or sub-falcate,”
“Pinnules oblong, often slightly falcate, entire or toothed.”
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
“Pinnæ broadly lanceolate-falcate or the lowest triangular, strongly auricled on the upper side, densely spinulose-toothed.”
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
“Thus, in Pl. 17, fig. 1, it is greatly developed and resembles a large horn with a falcate tip.”
“The two species known as Foxtail Pines are alike in their short entire falcate leaves, persisting for many years and forming long dense foliage-masses.”
“-- Body cylindrical, tapering to the tail; dorsal fin high, falcate, and placed about the middle of the body proper, excluding the tail portion; the forehead with a prominent boss over the snout, which is short; pectoral fins long and narrow; colour uniform leaden black, paler beneath.”
“The back fin rises behind the centre of the back; it is comparatively small, falcate, curved over the top to a blunt point, and concave behind.”
“Muzzle pointed; eyes prominent; ears rather large, sub-naked; fur soft (rarely mixed with spines); pollex rudimentary; claws short; tail moderate or long, scaly, with scattered hairs; no cheek pouches; skull elongate, narrow; temporal ridges nearly parallel; palate compressed; incisive foramina long; auditory bullae moderately large; coronoid process high, falcate; incisors rarely grooved; molars with transverse ridges, each composed in youth of three tubercles" (_Alston_).”
“Skull with marked but rounded supra-orbital ridges continued into temporal ridges; coronoid process high and falcate”
“-- This differs from the last in a "rather smaller, lower, and more falcate dorsal fin, its more pointed and less anteriorly bulging head, and rather shorter and broader pectoral fins”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘falcate’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fustilarian, fusillation, fustian, futurology, fusiform, futurition, fusee, fuscous, fusain, furunculoid, futtock, furibund and 418 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 343 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
roseate, acaudate, lyrate, pinnate, acerate, falcate, pedunculate, petiolate, oblate, tessellate, spatulate, fimbriate and 158 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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lee_d's Words
neologism, epicaricacy, chillax, arrears, locution, ressentiment, facticity, glib, escritoire, epicurian, alacrity, arbitrageur and 150 more...
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Zoological Terms
Terms used in Zoology
papilionaceous, actinost, gressorial, exuviate, nitid, trochal, demiss, loculus, crebrity, limes, pachytrichous, pachydactyl and 320 more...
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Botanical Terms
Terms used in botany
contabescence, effloresce, foliate, acervate, nuciform, feracious, fructuous, bifarious, serotinous, sative, demiss, tardive and 168 more...
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Shape Words
shapely adjectives and descriptors
clithridiate, botryose, fimbriate, filiciform, plumaceous, rhipidate, auriculate, belemnoid, cirriform, scyphate, falcate, cortinate and 127 more...
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obscurities
obscure but intriguing words
anthropophagous, limicolous, swannery, salicaceous, cruciverbalist, anaphrodisia, anfractuousity, saprophage, agrostology, rupicolous, cunctation, fungible and 41 more...
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Shaped Like Itself
falcate, pectinate, echinate, ctenoid, xyloid, onomastic, flocculate, hyetal, trochal, irenic, skeuomorph, erose and 2 more...
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DFW
apocope, bolection, reglet, dipsomania, quincunx, varicoceles, simpatico, aleatory, experialist, agnate, pedalferrous, fulvous and 80 more...
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Sickle-shaped
Words meaning sickle-shaped
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zilch's Words
saturnine, punctum, cantankerous, crenel, festoon, sophistry, ersatz, kismet, esprit, crepuscular, pulchritude, chthonic and 52 more...
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Pour utilizer en poesie
Words to be used in my poems.
psithurism, susurration, sea-reach, jument, still-hunter, falcate, monarda, palladium, senescence
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