falcation

noun

falcation

noun

Etymology From falcate + -ion?

1

Archaic The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.

the Locuſs have Antenna or long horns before, with a long falcation or forcipated tail behind1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

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