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| falcated
| falcatifolium
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| falcatifolium taxoides
| falcation
falcate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective falcate has 1 sense
- falcate(s = adj.all) falciform, sickle-shaped - curved like a sickle; "a falcate leaf"; "falcate claws"; "the falcate moon"
CIDE DICTIONARY
falcate, a. [L. falcatus, fr. falx, falcis, a sickle or scythe.].
Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
falcate, adj. Anat. curved like a sickle.
Etymology
L falcatus f. falx falcis sickle
THESAURUS
falcate
Cynthian, S-shaped, bicorn, corniform, crescent, crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, falciform, horn-shaped, horned, lunar, lunate, luniform, lunular, menisciform, meniscoid, moon-shaped, moonlike, semicircular, semilunar, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sigmoid, two-horned
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