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Falcate

Falcate Meaning & Definition
Falcate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Falcate?

[adj] curved like a sickle; "a falcate leaf"; "falcate claws"; "the falcate moon"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Falcate: curved | curving | falciform | sickle-shaped

Related Terms | Find terms related to Falcate: 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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Falcate In Webster's Dictionary

\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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