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Unguis   Listen
noun
Unguis  n.  (pl. ungues)  
1.
The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.
2.
(Zool.) One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
3.
(Bot.) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; called also ungula.





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"Unguis" Quotes from Famous Books



... varlet who his wine hath spilt As Scorpions smote him treblefold, Is thrown into a stagnant sea By Lordly Helm of bad repute, Whose visage, curl'd in ughly mien, Vext at each leper's font of spleen, Invokes a hairless witch to scan The shambling hordes that boon refute, Who lifts her unguis, long and lean, To curse each vyper's bloody dream, Each mongrel and forsaken man. Then quivers that cippus' hurl'd As templed vaults are splinter'd wide; And fearful fancies cleave the night When reeking ...
— Betelguese - A Trip Through Hell • Jean Louis de Esque


Words linked to "Unguis" :   body structure, anatomical structure, horny structure, bodily structure, nail, Pithecellodium unguis-cati, hoof, structure, complex body part, claw


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