falx.
A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
Meaning & usage
A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
Any sickle-shaped part or process. A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum, especially one of the partition-like folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
Any sickle-shaped part or process. A chelicera.
Any sickle-shaped part or process. A snake's poison fang.
Any sickle-shaped part or process. A rotula of a sea urchin.
Where this word comes from
From Latin falx (“sickle”). Doublet of dalk.
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