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unguis

[uhng-gwis] / ˈʌŋ gwɪs /


NOUN
hoof
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Recall to your memory the beautiful hands of Diana and Minerva, and these two lines of Ovid, which naturally come in here:Pg 156 "Exiguo signet gestu quodcunque loquetur, Cui digiti pingues, cui scaber unguis erit."

From The Wonders of Pompeii by Marc Monnier

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

It is a thin, clear white shell, and is well named, from unguis, a finger-nail, which it much resembles.

From Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by E. G. B. Moss

Nail: a tarsal claw: specifically the stout pointed claws in predatory Heteroptera = unguis.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

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

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

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

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

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




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