falciform

From Latin falx (“sickle”, stem falc-) + English -iform (“-shaped”).

• (UK) enPR: fălʹsĭfôrm, IPA^(key): /ˈfæl.sɪ.fɔːm/, /ˈfɒl.sɪ.fɔːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfæl.sɪ.fɔɹm/

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falciform (comparative more falciform, superlative most falciform)

1. Sickle-shaped.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, page 627:

     What announced the accomplishment of this rise in temperature?
     A double falciform ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at both sides simultaneously.

   • 2009, Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake:

     David realized he’d been unconsciously pushing his nails into his palms, leaving little red falciform marks.

• “falciform, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Borrowed from French falciforme.

falciform m or n (feminine singular falciformă, masculine plural falciformi, feminine/neuter plural falciforme)

1. falciform