drepanidn.
/ˈdrɛpɑːnɪd/ Zoology.
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A fish belonging to the Drepanidæ, a family of scombroid acanthopterygian fishes, the typical genus of which is Drepane, so called from its elongated falciform pectoral fins.
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ˈdrepaniform adj. sickle-shaped, falciform.
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ˈDrepanis n. [modern Latin] a genus of birds; the sickle-billed sunbirds of the South Sea Islands.
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dreˈpanium n. [modern Latin] Botany ‘Eichler's term for a sickle-shaped cyme, in which the lateral axes are all in the median plane and spring from the upper side of the curved axis.’
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ˈdrepanoid adj. ‘scythe or sickle-shaped ’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1883).
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