Falcate

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Curved and tapering to a point; sickle-shaped.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Shaped like a sickle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Hooked or bent like a sickle; ; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Hooked; curved like a scythe or sickle; falciform: specifically applied in anatomy, zoölogy, and botany to a falciform part or organ having two sharp and nearly parallel edges, curved in one plane and meeting at a point.
  • n. A figure resembling a sickle, formed by two curves bending the same way and meeting in a point at the apex, the base terminating in a straight margin.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. curved like a sickle
    • Equivalent
    curving    curved    falcated   
    Cross Reference
    falcate wings   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    curve    falciform   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.