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Keywords: Sickle, Scythe, Hook, Curved, Claw
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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Hooked or curved like a sickle.
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a. (L. falx, a sickle) curved like a sickle.
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curved and tapered to a point.
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curved like a sickle; "a falcate leaf"; "falcate claws"; "the falcate moon"
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With the tip of the forewing hooked.
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Hook-tipped or with a curved projection. The wing apices of Drepaninae are falcate.
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curved like the blade of a sickle
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scythe-shaped, new moon, hooked.
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shape: sickle shaped, curved and tapering to a point.
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Sickle-shaped and curved toward the tail.
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Sickle shaped or curved backwards. See example.
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Sickle shaped; asymmetric.
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sickle or scythe-shaped.
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Parent Term: Leaf_blade_shape
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Curved, sickle-shaped.
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sickle-shaped (fin usually).
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Sickle-shaped and curved backward.
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(Of spores) sickle-shaped. ( 17)
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Sickle or hook-shaped. Some whales, like orcas, have a falcate-shaped dorsal fin.
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