Usually means: Curved blade used in antiquity.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. falx: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. falx: Collins English Dictionary
  3. falx: Wordnik
  4. falx: Wiktionary
  5. falx: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. falx: Dictionary.com
  7. Falx (disambiguation), Falx: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Falx: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. falx: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Falx: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. falx: FreeDictionary.org
  12. falx: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. falx-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. falx: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. falx: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Falx: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. falx: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (falx)

noun:  (historical) A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
noun:  Any sickle-shaped part or process.
noun:  (anatomy) 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.
noun:  (anatomy, dated) A chelicera.
noun:  (anatomy) A snake's poison fang.
noun:  (anatomy) A rotula of a sea urchin.

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