unguis
Americannoun
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ungues
plural
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a nail, claw, or hoof.
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Botany. the clawlike base of certain petals.
noun
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a nail, claw, or hoof, or the part of the digit giving rise to it
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the clawlike base of certain petals
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of unguis
1685–95; < Latin unguis a nail, claw, hoof; akin to Greek ónyx
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Besides the plants already described, Bignonia unguis and its close allies, though aided by tendrils, have clasping petioles.
From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin
Unguif′erous, bearing an unguis of one kind or other; Ung′uiform, shaped like a claw; Ung′uinal, pertaining to the unguis or nail; Unguiros′tral, with a nail at the end of the bill.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The malar bone, and the os unguis or lachrymal, are more or less developed according to the species considered.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
Secondly and thirdly, Bignonia unguis with its close allies, and Cardiospermum; but their tendrils are so short that their contraction could hardly occur, and would be quite superfluous.
From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin
The tendrils are so closely similar in all respects to those of B. unguis, that one description will suffice.
From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin
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 Charles Hoole
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 Gene Stratton-Porter
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
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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
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