A falcate leaf. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Pinnules oblong, often slightly falcate, entire or toothed. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Mature foliage consists of phyllodes, which may be straight or falcate, acute or sub-falcate. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 41] Reference
Pinnæ broadly lanceolate-falcate or the lowest triangular, strongly auricled on the upper side, densely spinulose-toothed. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
The seed mixtures often include falcate alfalfa, which helps both sage grouse and mule deer. From Wordnik.com. [billingsgazette.com] Reference
Thus, in Pl. 17, fig. 1, it is greatly developed and resembles a large horn with a falcate tip. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Figures in the Maya Codices] Reference
The dolphin is characterized by its short thick creamy-white beak and very falcate (curved) dorsal fin. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Japan shows 'The Cove' after delay from protests] Reference
I saw but one flower of it, but its falcate seed-vessels, often more than a foot long, were very numerous. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
"Skull with marked but rounded supra-orbital ridges continued into temporal ridges; coronoid process high and falcate". From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Its long, slightly falcate leaves, being of a silvery green colour, give a peculiar character to the forest, where the tree abounds. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
On the ridges, we observed Persoonia with long falcate leaves; the grass-tree (Xanthorrhaea); the rusty gum, and the Melaleuca of Mount Stewart. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
The two species known as Foxtail Pines are alike in their short entire falcate leaves, persisting for many years and forming long dense foliage-masses. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
An Acacia with very large falcate, glaucous phyllodia, and the Euphorbiaceous Severn-tree, were very plentiful; and Crinum grew in thousands on the sandy flats. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
Even the vegetation agreed well with that of the same locality; as the dwarf Grevillea, G. chrysodendrum, and the falcate Grevillea of the upper Lynd, were here again observed. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
Papilios of Celebes, having the Closely allied Papilios of the wings falcate or with abruptly surrounding islands, with less curved costa. wings and slightly falcate curved costa. From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference
This differs from the last in a "rather smaller, lower, and more falcate dorsal fin, its more pointed and less anteriorly bulging head, and rather shorter and broader pectoral fins". From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
To successfully produce natural gas in the West today, energy companies have to know about how to grow falcate alfalfa in drought conditions, and how to affix radio collars to small game birds. From Wordnik.com. [billingsgazette.com] Reference
Now the arched costa and falcate form of wing is generally supposed to give increased powers of flight, or, as seems to me more probable, greater facility in making sudden turnings, and thus baffling a pursuer. From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference
Grevillea ceratophylla (R. Br.) and another Grevillea, with a compound terminal thyrsus, and long lanceolate falcate leaves, grew on the slopes, in company with a Xylomelum, with smooth and smaller seed-vessels than those of X. pyriforme. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
This peculiarity consists, first, in the upper wings being generally more elongate and falcate; and secondly, in the costa or anterior margin being much more curved, and in most instances exhibiting near the base an abrupt bend or elbow, which in some species is very conspicuous. From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference
Body cylindrical, tapering to the tail; dorsal fin high, falcate, and placed about the middle of the body proper, excluding the tail portion; the forehead with a prominent boss over the snout, which is short; pectoral fins long and narrow; colour uniform leaden black, paler beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
It's obvious someone else had a hand in the screenplay, but Mario did the choreography and most of the puppet-work personally - his little S-shaped arms and falcate digits are perfect for the forward curve from body to snout of a standard big-headed political puppet - and it was, without question, Mario's little square Bolex itself mounted on one of the tunnel's locked lab's Husky-VI TL tripods across the over lit closet, mops and dull-gray janitorial buckets carefully moved out past the frame's borders on either side of the little velvet stage. From Wordnik.com. [kottke.org] Reference
= -- Buds dark reddish-brown, rather closely set along the stalk, conical or somewhat angled, narrow, often falcate, sharp-pointed, resinous throughout, viscid, aromatic, exhaling a powerful odor when the scales expand, terminal about 3/4 inch long. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Xylomelum, Xanthorrhaea, Zamia, Leptospermum, a new species of forest oak, which deserves the name of Casuarina VILLOSA, for its bark looks quite villous; Persoonia falcata, R. Br., a small tree about fifteen feet high, with stiff glaucous falcate leaves, and racemose inflorescence; a dwarf Persoonia, with linear leaves, the stringy-bark, and a species of. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
Young twigs and leaves pubescent, later nearly or quite glabrous; leaflets seven to fifteen, falcate, oblong -- lanceolate, sharp-pointed, serrate, green and bright above, lighter below; staminate catkins five to six inches long, sessile or nearly so, sometimes borne near the base on the young shoots but usually from the uppermost lateral buds on last year's shoots; pistillate flowers terminal on shoots of the current season's growth, produced singly or in clusters of two to nine; fruit oblong cylindrical; husk four-valved; nut 3/4 to 2-1/2 inches in greatest diameter, roundish, or cylindrical and pointed, two-celled at the base, partition thin, bitter, seed deliciously sweet. From Wordnik.com. [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference
Body fusiform, gaining its greatest diameter at the fore-part of the dorsal fin, decreasing forward to the head by straight converging lines, and with a gentle convex curve to the eyes and blow-hole; the forehead descends with a bold convex curve; the sides of the head converge from the eyes to the base of the snout, which is divided from the forehead by a transverse groove extending almost horizontally to the angles of the mouth, and it equals in length the distance from the base to the eyes, which is five inches and a-half; the lower jaw projects a little beyond the upper; the blow-hole is crescentic, in a line with the eyes, exactly in the middle of the head, with the horns of the crescent pointing towards the snout; the pectoral and dorsal fins are falcate and about equal in size; the colour is a dark plumbeous grey, almost black upon the fins, especially at their fore-part; the body below being of a pinkish ashy-grey, with a few small irregular patches of light plumbeous grey. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
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