unguis
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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 Darwin, Charles
The malar bone, and the os unguis or lachrymal, are more or less developed according to the species considered.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
I have no doubt, from the analogy of the two following allied species, that the petioles also move spontaneously; but they are not irritable like those of B. unguis and B. Tweedyana.
From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Darwin, Charles
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 Cuyer, ?douard
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
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 Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
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 Hoole, Charles
