falcate
adjective
curved like a scythe or sickle; hooked; falciform.
subfalcate
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a word derived from
falcate.
Example Sentences
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Very slender, innovate-branching; leaves smaller, especially above, dimidiate-ovate or subfalcate, subdecurrent.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
