Falcate

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  • adjective. Curved and tapering to a point; sickle-shaped.
    • The 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.
  • noun. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Hooked or bent like a sickle; ; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Shaped like a sickle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. curved like a sickle
    • Word Usage
    "Mature foliage consists of phyllodes, which may be straight or falcate, acute or sub-falcate,"
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