Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or resembling nails or claws.
- adjective Zoology Having nails or claws, as opposed to hooves. Used of mammals.
- adjective Botany Having a claw-shaped base.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Unguiculata.
- adjective Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under
nail , n., 1. - adjective (Bot.) Furnished with a claw, or a narrow stalklike base, as the petals of a carnation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Having
nails orclaws , as distinguished fromhoofs .
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910
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Corolla of 4 unguiculate petals, between white and straw color, 1 'long.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Because the latter being divided into three branches by the diversity of the habits which, with the lapse of time, they have adopted, some have caused the formation of the Cetacea, others that of the ungulated mammals, and still others that of the unguiculate mammals.
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The planet las vegas, worsening from parker from all stoutly the haitian poignancy, compiler in a unguiculate of recurrent motrin.
Rational Review 2009
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