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
Masculine: all nouns in -nis and -guis; as, amnis, river; īgnis, fire; pānis, bread; sanguis, blood; unguis, nail.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
Besides the plants already described, Bignonia unguis and its close allies, though aided by tendrils, have clasping petioles.
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
Hic tuus inveniet satis in quo saeviat unguis, Quodque veru docto trans obeliscus eat: Scilicet haec mea sunt; haec quas mala scilicet: � si, Quae tua nempe forent, hic meliora forent!
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
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