sickle-shaped

ADJECTIVE
  1. curved like a sickle
    falcate claws
    a falcate leaf
    the falcate moon
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How To Use sickle-shaped In A Sentence

  • The tail, or caudal fin, is large and sickle-shaped, to give short, rapid bursts of speed.
  • I think fish with lunate tail fins (meaning crescent or sickle-shaped) such as tuna, various jacks, and marlin can exert more proportionately more force than those with broad tails such as bass or trout. What Fish Pulls the Hardest?
  • Deinonychus, or "terrible claw" after the sickle-shaped talon on each hind foot, stood about 11 feet from head to tail and was a lithe predator.
  • The big grey animals with sickle-shaped dorsal fins and prominent beaks are bottlenose dolphins (immortalised by Flipper).
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