Definition of "fallax" [fal•lax]

• Cavillation; petty criticism (noun)

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• "Endemism is relatively low except for avifauna, which includes the species buffy hummingbird (Leucippus fallax) and chesnut piculet (Picumnus cinnamomeus)."
• "All Antillean amphibians (Table 1.2) are frogs, and two Lesser Antillean endemics, a small tree frog, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis, and the large "mountain chicken" Leptodactylus fallax, occur principally on Dominica."
• "West of the grassland plains a narrow band of eucalypt and Melaleuca woodlands with a Chrysopogon fallax-dominated understory skirts the north of the Mount Isa Inlier."