Unguiculate

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  • adjective. Having or resembling nails or claws.
  • adjective. Having nails or claws, as opposed to hooves. Used of mammals.
  • adjective. Having a claw-shaped base.
  • 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.
  • noun. A member of the Unguiculata.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under nail, n., 1.
  • adjective. Furnished with a claw, or a narrow stalklike base, as the petals of a carnation.
  • noun. One of the Unguiculata.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having nails or claws, as distinguished from hoofs.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having or resembling claws or nails
  • noun. a mammal having nails or claws
  • Word Usage
    "For example, the human germ, primarily similar to all others, first differentiates from vegetal germs, then from invertebrate germs, and subsequently assumes the mammalian, placental unguiculate, and lastly the human characters."
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