Definitions for falcate

falcate fal·cate

Spelling: [fal-keyt or fal-key-tid]
IPA: /ˈfæl keɪt or ˈfæl keɪ tɪd/

Falcate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in falcate (aaceflt).

Definitions for falcate

adjective

  1. curved like a scythe or sickle; hooked; falciform.

Origin of falcate

1820-30; Latin falcātus sickle-shaped, equivalent to falc- (stem of falx) sickle + -ātus -ate1

Examples for falcate

Prickles straightish or falcate, slender or strong, without bristles.

This falcate Orange-tip is one of the daintiest and most exquisite of northern butterflies.

Front outer angle of each front wing projecting into a falcate tip.

Setae numerous; the appendage short, falcate, with tip simple, but a slender tooth near middle of curved edge.

"Skull with marked but rounded supra-orbital ridges continued into temporal ridges; coronoid process high and falcate" (Alston).

In the genus Pontoporia the dorsal fin is well developed and falcate.

There is a falcate dorsal fin; but the head in outline is not Rorqual-like in spite of its similar proportions.

The dorsal fin was relatively small, falcate, and obtusely terminated.

Wings rather short, falcate, pointed, the second primary longest.

falcate, scythe-shaped; a flat body curved, its edges parallel.

Word Value for falcate
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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