falcated

English

Etymology

Latin falcatus (“sickle-shaped”)

Adjective

falcated (not comparable)

  1. 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.
    • 1860, James Emerson Tennent, Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and‎:
      But little inferior to it in size is the famed Tusseh silk moth[1], which feeds on the country almond (Terminalia catappa) and the palma Christi or Castor-oil plant; it is easily distinguishable from the Atlas, which has a triangular wing, whilst its [wing] is falcated, and the transparent spots are covered with a curious thread-like division drawn across them.

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for falcated in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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