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falciform (FAL-suh-fawm) - adj., shaped like a sickle.
Or a scythe, but the Latin root falx originally meant a sickle. Curving and tapered to a point, at any rate. Coined either in the 18th or 19th century (dictionaries disagree) from said root. Falcons are named after the same root, from the shape of their talons.
---L.
Or a scythe, but the Latin root falx originally meant a sickle. Curving and tapered to a point, at any rate. Coined either in the 18th or 19th century (dictionaries disagree) from said root. Falcons are named after the same root, from the shape of their talons.
---L.
