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Definition of Falcate
1. Adjective. Curved like a sickle. "The falcate moon"
Definition of Falcate
1. a. 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.
Definition of Falcate
1. Adjective. (zoology and botany) Shaped like a sickle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Falcate
1. curved and tapering to a point [adj]
Medical Definition of Falcate
1. Sickle-shaped. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falcate
Literary usage of Falcate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Phyll. mostly larger and more falcate: young shoot.s and inflorescence minutely
hoary or golden-pubescent : pod nearly %in. broad. 19. saligna, Wendl. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The pectoral fins are of moderate size and slightly falcate. The horizontally-expanded
caudal fiu is of'tlie form common to all ..."
3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker, John Edward Gray (1863)
"Fore wings falcate, partly tinged with dull red, minutely speckled with ...
Fore wings falcate, with two slender transverse black lines ; interior line ..."
4. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology, Francis Walker, John Edward Gray, British Museum (Natural History) (1855)
"Fore wings falcate, slightly convex towards the tip of the costil, ... Fore wings
hardly falcate, oblique and hardly concave along the exterior border. 10. ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"... and chin deep black; tail whitish, with a large central black band; quill
black, first short, slender, falcate. Variety of the former? ..."
6. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"Stem prostrate, fragile: leaves falcate-secund, oblong at base, abruptly lanceolate,
cuspidate by the ..."
7. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1878)
"Its immense size, falcate wings, with the large triangular transparent spot in
the centre, readily distinguish it. A. Atlas Linn., from China, expands from ..."
8. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"Lower pair of pinnae bipartite; segments linear, blunt, and sub-falcate.
Stipes slightly scaly near the base. ..."
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