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[syn: falcate, falciform, sickle-shaped]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Falcate \Fal"cate\, Falcated \Fal"ca*ted\, 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
falcate
adj 1: curved like a sickle; "a falcate leaf"; "falcate claws";
"the falcate moon" [syn: falcate, falciform, sickle-
shaped]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "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