This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.

The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.

The word for today is acinaciform: of the shape of a scimitar, from the Latin, acinaces.

Acinaciform leaf:

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