sickle-shaped
21sickle feather — /ˈsɪkəl fɛðə/ (say sikuhl fedhuh) noun one of the paired, elongated, sickle shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the cock …
22sickle-grass — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : a stout 3 angled sedge (Carex crinita) of eastern No. America with dense drooping sickle shaped spikes 2. : a tearthumb (Polygonum arifolium) …
23sickle cell anemia — Pathol. a chronic hereditary blood disease, occurring primarily among Africans or persons of African descent, in which abnormal hemoglobin causes red blood cells to become sickle shaped and nonfunctional, characterized by enlarged spleen, chronic …
24sickle cell — n 1) an abnormal red blood cell of crescent shape 2) a condition characterized by sickle cells: SICKLE CELL ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL TRAIT * * * see drepanocyte * * * an erythrocyte shaped like a sickle or crescent owing to the presence of …
25Sickle-winged Chat — Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kin …
26sickle — (n.) O.E. sicol, probably a West Germanic borrowing (Cf. M.Du. sickele, O.H.G. sihhila, Du. sikkel, Ger. Sichel) from V.L. *sicila, from L. secula sickle (Cf. It. segolo hatchet ), from PIE root *sek cut (see SECTION (Cf …
27sickle — [sik′əl] n. [ME sikel < OE sicol (akin to Ger sichel) < early WGmc borrowing < L secula < secare, to cut: see SAW1] a tool consisting of a crescent shaped blade with a short handle: used for cutting down tall grasses and weeds …
28sickle — 1. noun [sɪkl̩/ an implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops Syn …
29moon shaped — Synonyms and related words: Cynthian, S shaped, bicorn, corniform, crescent, crescent shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, falcate, falciform, horn shaped, horned, lunar, lunate, luniform, lunular, menisciform, meniscoid, moonlike,… …
30moon-shaped — adj crescent, crescentic, crescent shaped, demilune, half moon, meniscoid; lunate, lunar, lunular, lunulate, luniform; sickle shaped, falcate, falciform, bicorn; semiglobular, hemispheric; curved, bow shaped, convexo concave, semicircular …
