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unguessed |
unguestlike |
unguical |
unguicular |
unguiculata |
unguiculate
| unguiculate mammal
| unguiculated
| unguided
| unguiferous
| unguiform
unguiculate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun unguiculate has 1 sense
- unguiculate(n = noun.animal) unguiculate mammal - a mammal having nails or claws; Array is a kind of eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal
Derived form adjective unguiculate1
Adjective unguiculate has 1 sense
- unguiculate(a = adj.all) unguiculated - having or resembling claws or nails; "unguiculate animals"; "an unguiculate flower petal" Derived form noun unguiculate1
Antonym: ungulate
CIDE DICTIONARY
unguiculate, n.
One of the Unguiculata. [1913 Webster]
unguiculate, a.
- Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under Nail,
n. , 1. [1913 Webster] - Furnished with a claw, or a narrow stalklike base, as the petals of a carnation. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unguiculate, adj.
1 Zool. having one or more nails or claws.
2 Bot. (of petals) having an unguis.
1 Zool. having one or more nails or claws.
2 Bot. (of petals) having an unguis.
Etymology
mod.L unguiculatus f. unguiculus dimin. of UNGUIS
ROGET THESAURUS
unguiculate
Curvature
N curvature, curvity, curvation, incurvature, incurvity, incurvation, bend, flexure, flexion, flection, conflexure, crook, hook, bought, bending, deflection, deflexion, inflection, inflexion, concameration, arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep, curl, curling, bough, recurvity, recurvation, sinuosity, kink, carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck, parabola, hyperbola, helix, spiral, catenary, festoon, conchoid, cardioid, caustic, tracery, arched ceiling, arched roof, bay window, bow window, sine curve, spline, spline curve, spline function, obliquity, curved, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, devex, devious, recurved, recurvous, crump, bowed, vaulted, hooked, falciform, falcated, semicircular, crescentic, sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid, luniform, lunular, semilunar, conchoidal, helical, double helical, spiral, kinky, cordiform, cordated, cardioid, heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped, kidney-shaped, reniform, lentiform, lenticular, bow-legged, oblique, circular, aduncated, arclike, arcuate, arched, beaked, bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute, clypeate, clypeiform, cymbiform, embowed, galeiform, hamate, hamiform, hamous, hooked, linguiform, lingulate, lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid, scutate, scaphoid, uncate, unguiculate, unguiform.
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