Meaning of FALCATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'falkeyt
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| | Definition: | | [adj] curved like a sickle; "a falcate leaf"; "falcate claws"; "the falcate moon" |
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| | Synonyms: | | curved, curving, falciform, sickle-shaped |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Sickle-shaped. |
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| | Related Terms: | | bicorn, corniform, crescent, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, crescent-shaped, Cynthian, falciform, horned, horn-shaped, lunar, lunate, luniform, lunular, menisciform, meniscoid, moonlike, moon-shaped, semicircular, semilunar, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sigmoid, S-shaped, two-horned |
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