Falcated

Origin

Latin falcatus ("sickle-shaped")

Full definition of falcated

Adjective

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 Chapter , But little inferior to it in size is the famed Tusseh silk moth1, 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.