Falx

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; ·esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

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falx
falx, falcis, f. [perh. akin to flecto], a sickle, reaping-hook, a pruning-hook, scythe. I Prop., ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
falx
falx falcis, f FALC-, a curved blade, pruningknife, pruning-hook : vitīs incidere falce, V., H., O...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary