Unguiculate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having or resembling nails or claws.
  • adj. Zoology Having nails or claws, as opposed to hooves. Used of mammals.
  • adj. Botany Having a claw-shaped base: an unguiculate petal.
  • n. Zoology A mammal having nails or claws.
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  • adj. Having nails or claws, as distinguished from hoofs.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the Unguiculata.
  • adj. Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under nail, n., 1.
  • adj. Furnished with a claw, or a narrow stalklike base, as the petals of a carnation.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having nails or claws, as distinguished from hoofs; not ungulate nor muticous, as a mammal; belonging to the Unguiculata.
  • In botany, furnished with a claw or claw-like base; clawed: said of petals; also, ending in a point like a claw.
  • In entomology, hooked, as if clawed.
  • n. A member of the Unguiculata.
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  • adj. having or resembling claws or nails
  • n. a mammal having nails or claws
    • Equivalent
    clawed    clawlike    unguiculated   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    eutherian    placental mammal    eutherian mammal    placental   
    Cross Reference
    unguiculate maxillæ    palpi    unguiculate tibia   
    Variant
    nail   
     
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