falcate

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Adjective
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fal=cate

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective falcate has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

falcatea. [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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