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nounfalcation (countable and uncountable, plural falcations)
plural falcations
- archaiccountableuncountableThe 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 behind
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
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