sickle-shaped
31crescent-shaped — adjective resembling the new moon in shape • Syn: ↑crescent, ↑semilunar, ↑lunate • Similar to: ↑rounded • Derivationally related forms: ↑crescent (for: ↑ …
32yellow-leaf sickle pine — noun a rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle shaped leaves; host species for the rare parasite yew • Syn: ↑Falcatifolium taxoides • Hypernyms: ↑conifer, ↑coniferous tree • Member Holonyms:… …
33moon-shaped — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lunar, sickle shaped, crescent; see bent …
34sick|le-shaped — «SIHK uhl SHAYPT», adjective. shaped like a sickle; having a curved, hooklike form; falcate …
35falcate — Sickle shaped or hooked [McLaughlin, 1980]. (Order Isopoda): Sickle shaped; curved and tapering to a point [Kensley and Schotte, 1989]. (Subclass Copepoda): Used for a curved or hooked element [Boxshall and Halsey, 2004] …
36sicklecell anemia — sickle cell anemia n. A chronic, usually fatal anemia marked by sickle shaped red blood cells, occurring almost exclusively in Black people of Africa or of African descent, and characterized by episodic pain in the joints, fever, leg ulcers, and… …
37sick´le-cell´ — sickle cell, a red blood cell that is sickle shaped instead of round because of an abnormality in the hemoglobin: »The sickle cell is a genetic mutation that occurred long ago in malarial regions of Africa (Scientific American). –sick´le cell´,… …
38falcate — sickle shaped; long, narrow and deeply concave or curved …
39Red blood cell — Human red blood cells (6 8μm) Red blood cells (abbreviated RBCs; also referred to as erythrocytes or simply, as red cells[1]) are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate organism s principal means of delivering oxygen (O2) to the… …
40Dromaeosauridae — Deuterostomia Dromaeosaurids Temporal range: Middle Jurassic – Late Cretaceous, 164–65.5 Ma …
