ungues
- plural of unguis.
Example Sentences
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Myodocopa.—These have the furcal branches broad, lamellar, with at least three pairs of strong spines or ungues.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
From them we learn that it requires a coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus, ungues, pulvillus, and anterior, medial and posterior spurs to provide a leg for a moth.
From Moths of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene
As there are few difficulties to overcome, it suffers from a fatal facility—nec pluteum coedit nec demorsos sapit ungues.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
Bestiæ habent acutos ungues, & dentes, suntque carnivoræ, As the Lyon, 1. the King of four-footed Beasts, having a mane; with the Lioness.
From The Orbis Pictus by Hoole, Charles
