Unguis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Zoology A nail, claw, or hoof.
  • n. Botany The clawlike base of some petals.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.
  • n. One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
  • n. The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; an ungula.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.
  • n. One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
  • n. The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; called also ungula.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The horny, nail-like covering of the tip of the bill found in ducks and geese.
  • n. A nail, claw, or hoof of any animal.
  • n. A measure of length, about half an inch. In anatomy: The human lacrymal bone: so called because it resembles the human finger-nail: more fully called os unguis.
  • n. The hippocampus minor, or calcar, of the brain. Also unguis avis, unguis Halleri.
  • n. In entomology, one of the curved claws at the extremity of an insect's tarsus.
  • n. In botany, the claw or lower contracted part of some petals, by which they are attached to the receptacle, as in the pink, the mustard, Cleome, etc. It is analogous to the petiole of a leaf. Also ungula. See cut under claw.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any rigid body structure composed primarily of keratin
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    structure    anatomical structure    complex body part    body structure    bodily structure   
    Variant
    Ungula   
    Hyponym
    nail    claw    hoof   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    claw   
     
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