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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In anatomy, the unciform bone of the carpus: more fully called os uncinatum.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy The hamate bone.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Anat.) The unciform bone.

Etymologies

  1. New Latin, from Latin uncinatus hooked. Compare uncinate. (Wiktionary)

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  • “Nectandra cf. reticulata, Cedrelinga catenaeformis, Erisma uncinatum, Phragmotheca ecuadoriensis, Parkia multijuga, Ochroma sp., and Pouteria sp., and palm species of the genera Bactris and Astrocaryum.”

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  • “N. uncinatum produces lolines which may cause variable responses in invertebrates and small vertebrates”

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  • “An especially striking summertime blue is monkshood, Aconitum uncinatum.”

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