unguis

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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)

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

Unguif′erous, bearing an unguis of one kind or other; Ung′uiform, shaped like a claw; Ung′uinal, pertaining to the unguis or nail; Unguiros′tral, with a nail at the end of the bill.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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