Falcate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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