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unguis

[uhng-gwis] / ˈʌŋ gwɪs /


NOUN
hoof
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Another horn, probably that of an ibex, is in the same institution, and has a silver mount inscribed “Gryphi unguis divo Cuthberto dunelmensi sacer.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

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

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

In the horse it arises, by a small tendon, from a tubercle which occupies the external surface of the os unguis, or lachrymal bone.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer

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

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

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

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




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