The Collaborative International Dictionary
Falciform \Fal"ci*form\, a. [L. falx, falcis, a sickle + -form: cf. F. falciforme.] Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
Wiktionary
a. sickle-shaped.
WordNet
adj. curved like a sickle; "a falcate leaf"; "falcate claws"; "the falcate moon" [syn: falcate, sickle-shaped]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "falciform".
Now that he considered it, Hel found a certain resemblance between the two, the narrow face, the intense black eyes set rather close together, the falciform nose, the thin upper lip and heavy, bloodless lower, a certain intensity of manner.
The lower half of the ascending frontal convolution, the greater half of the sigmoid gyrus, the posterior third of the lower and middle frontal convolutions, the base and posterior end of the upper convolution, and the base of the corresponding portion of the falciform lobe were involved.