falciferous

== English == === Etymology === From Latin falx (“sickle”) +‎ -i- +‎ -ferous (“-bearing”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fălsĭʹfərəs, IPA(key): /fælˈsɪfəɹəs/ Rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs === Adjective === falciferous (not comparable) (rare) Sickle-bearing. 1920: Imperial Bureau of Entomology, The Review of Applied Entomology: Agricultural, volume VIII, page 212 (Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux) […] (oblong scale), abundant throughout the south and especially in the Gironde region; Pulvinaria vitis (red scale) and Pseudococcus (Dactylopius) vitis (white scale) foung throughout the Mediterranean basin; Eulecanium (Lecanium) corni, found only in the north; Aulacaspis (Diaspis) pentagona; and the falciferous scale [Rhizoecus falcifer, Künek.] which lives on the roots. 1946: Iowa State College Journal of Science, volume 21, page 400 (Iowa State College Press) A[stragalus] falciferous Hult. 1975: Polska Akademia Nauk Komitet Geologiczny, Acta Geologica Polonica, volume 25, page 118 (Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe) Internal morphology: Dental lamellae short, slightly recurved and close to the valve sides. Teeth broad with crenulation or notch denticle developed. Cardinal plates broad, ventrally convex, merging in inner socket ridges. Crural bases have long dorsal and short ventral ends. Crura broad, falciferous. Low dorsal euseptum developed (Fig. 2). === References === Thomas Blount’s Glossographia (1656–81) Elisha Coles’s English Dictionary (1692–1732) “FALCIFʹEROUS” listed in John Ash’s New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1775)  FALCIFʹEROUS (adj. from the Lat. falx a hook, and fero to bear, but not much uſed) Bearing a hook, carrying a bill. “Falciferous” listed on page 212 of Arnold James Cooley’s Dictionary of English Language (1861)  Falciferous, făl-sĭfʹ-ĕr-ŭs, a. Sickle-bearing; falciform. “falˈciferous, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]