falcate

• To successfully produce natural gas in the West today, energy companies have to know about how to grow falcate alfalfa in drought conditions, and how to affix radio collars to small game birds. —  billingsgazette.com
• The seed mixtures often include falcate alfalfa, which helps both sage grouse and mule deer. —  billingsgazette.com
• 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. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• 146 HABITAT.--Bay of Bengal DESCRIPTION.--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 SIZE.--Fourteen feet, flippers 2 feet; dorsal fin, 2-1/4 feet long, 11 inches high; tail flukes, 3 feet broad Blyth's specimens were procured in the Salt Lakes near Calcutta. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• Pinnć 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

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