sickle-shaped — adjective curved like a sickle a falcate leaf falcate claws the falcate moon • Syn: ↑falcate, ↑falciform • Similar to: ↑curved, ↑curving … Useful english dictionary
sickle-shaped — a. Falcate, falcated, hooked … New dictionary of synonyms
falcate — [fal′kāt΄, fal′kit] adj. [L falcatus < falx (gen. falcis), a sickle < ? IE base * dhelg , to pierce, needle > Ger dolch, dagger] sickle shaped; curved; hooked … English World dictionary
falcate — Sickle shaped or hooked [McLaughlin, 1980]. (Order Isopoda): Sickle shaped; curved and tapering to a point [Kensley and Schotte, 1989]. (Subclass Copepoda): Used for a curved or hooked element [Boxshall and Halsey, 2004] … Crustacea glossary
falcate — sickle shaped; long, narrow and deeply concave or curved … Dictionary of ichthyology
falcate — a. sickle shaped … Dictionary of difficult words
falcate — Synonyms and related words: Cynthian, S shaped, bicorn, corniform, crescent, crescent shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, falciform, horn shaped, horned, lunar, lunate, luniform, lunular, menisciform, meniscoid, moon shaped, moonlike … Moby Thesaurus
sickle alfalfa — noun European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle shaped pods • Syn: ↑sickle lucerne, ↑sickle medick, ↑Medicago falcata • Hypernyms: ↑medic, ↑medick, ↑trefoil * * * noun … Useful english dictionary
falcate — /fal kayt/, adj. curved like a scythe or sickle; hooked; falciform. Also, falcated. [1820 30; < L falcatus sickle shaped, equiv. to falc (s. of falx) sickle + atus ATE1] * * * … Universalium
falcate — adj. [L. falx, sickle] Sickle shaped, hooked or new moonshaped … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
