Mature foliage consists of phyllodes, which may be straight or falcate, acute or sub-falcate, ❋ Unknown (1990)
Pinnules oblong, often slightly falcate, entire or toothed. ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)
Pinnæ broadly lanceolate-falcate or the lowest triangular, strongly auricled on the upper side, densely spinulose-toothed. ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)
Thus, in Pl. 17, fig. 1, it is greatly developed and resembles a large horn with a falcate tip. ❋ Unknown (1915)
The two species known as Foxtail Pines are alike in their short entire falcate leaves, persisting for many years and forming long dense foliage-masses. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)
"Muzzle pointed; eyes prominent; ears rather large, sub-naked; fur soft (rarely mixed with spines); pollex rudimentary; claws short; tail moderate or long, scaly, with scattered hairs; no cheek pouches; skull elongate, narrow; temporal ridges nearly parallel; palate compressed; incisive foramina long; auditory bullae moderately large; coronoid process high, falcate; incisors rarely grooved; molars with transverse ridges, each composed in youth of three tubercles" (_Alston_). ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
"Skull with marked but rounded supra-orbital ridges continued into temporal ridges; coronoid process high and falcate" ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
-- This differs from the last in a "rather smaller, lower, and more falcate dorsal fin, its more pointed and less anteriorly bulging head, and rather shorter and broader pectoral fins" ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
-- Body cylindrical, tapering to the tail; dorsal fin high, falcate, and placed about the middle of the body proper, excluding the tail portion; the forehead with a prominent boss over the snout, which is short; pectoral fins long and narrow; colour uniform leaden black, paler beneath. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
The back fin rises behind the centre of the back; it is comparatively small, falcate, curved over the top to a blunt point, and concave behind. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
Papilios of Celebes, having the Closely allied Papilios of the wings falcate or with abruptly surrounding islands, with less curved costa. wings and slightly falcate curved costa. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
This peculiarity consists, first, in the upper wings being generally more elongate and falcate; and secondly, in the costa or anterior margin being much more curved, and in most instances exhibiting near the base an abrupt bend or elbow, which in some species is very conspicuous. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
Now the arched costa and falcate form of wing is generally supposed to give increased powers of flight, or, as seems to me more probable, greater facility in making sudden turnings, and thus baffling a pursuer. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
_S. nigra_, var. _falcata_, Pursh., covers about the same range as the type and differs chiefly in its narrower, falcate leaves. ❋ Lorin Low Dame (1860)
An Acacia with very large falcate, glaucous phyllodia, and the Euphorbiaceous Severn-tree, were very plentiful; and Crinum grew in thousands on the sandy flats. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)
Even the vegetation agreed well with that of the same locality; as the dwarf Grevillea, G. chrysodendrum, and the falcate Grevillea of the upper Lynd, were here again observed. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)
On the ridges, we observed Persoonia with long falcate leaves; the grass-tree (Xanthorrhaea); the rusty gum, and the Melaleuca of Mount Stewart. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)
I saw but one flower of it, but its falcate seed-vessels, often more than a foot long, were very numerous. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)
Its long, slightly falcate leaves, being of a silvery green colour, give a peculiar character to the forest, where the tree abounds. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)
Grevillea ceratophylla (R. Br.) and another Grevillea, with a compound terminal thyrsus, and long lanceolate falcate leaves, grew on the slopes, in company with a Xylomelum, with smooth and smaller seed-vessels than those of X. pyriforme. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)
[Aurelien]: Man, I'm a Falcated [duck]. Time to play [Battlefield 3] ❋ Synterra (2011)
