unguis

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I have no doubt, from the analogy of the two following allied species, that the petioles also move spontaneously; but they are not irritable like those of B. unguis and B. Tweedyana.

From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Darwin, Charles

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

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

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

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 Monnier, Marc