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Falcate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FALC'ATE,
FALC'ATED, a. [L. falcatus, from faix, a sickly, sythe or reaping hook.]
Hooked; bent like a sickle or sythe; an epithet applied to the new moon.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: curved like a sickle; "a falcate leaf"; "falcate claws"; "the falcate moon" [syn: falcate, falciform, sickle- shaped]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin falcatus, from falc-, falx sickle, scythe Date: 1826 hooked or curved like a sickle

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. Anat. curved like a sickle. Etymology: L falcatus f. falx falcis sickle

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a.; (also falcated) (Bot.) Hooked, sickle-shaped.

Moby Thesaurus

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