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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having or resembling nails or claws.
  2. adj. Zoology Having nails or claws, as opposed to hooves. Used of mammals.
  3. adj. Botany Having a claw-shaped base: an unguiculate petal.
  4. n. Zoology A mammal having nails or claws.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having nails or claws, as distinguished from hoofs; not ungulate nor muticous, as a mammal; belonging to the Unguiculata.
  2. In botany, furnished with a claw or claw-like base; clawed: said of petals; also, ending in a point like a claw.
  3. In entomology, hooked, as if clawed.
  4. n. A member of the Unguiculata.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. biology Having nails or claws, as distinguished from hoofs.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) One of the Unguiculata.
  2. adj. Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under nail, n., 1.
  3. adj. (Bot.) Furnished with a claw, or a narrow stalklike base, as the petals of a carnation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having or resembling claws or nails
  2. n. a mammal having nails or claws

Etymologies

  1. New Latin unguiculātus, from Latin unguiculus, fingernail, diminutive of unguis; see unguis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “For example, the human germ, primarily similar to all others, first differentiates from vegetal germs, then from invertebrate germs, and subsequently assumes the mammalian, placental unguiculate, and lastly the human characters.”

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  • “Corolla of 4 unguiculate petals, between white and straw color, 1 'long.”

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  • “Because the latter being divided into three branches by the diversity of the habits which, with the lapse of time, they have adopted, some have caused the formation of the Cetacea, others that of the ungulated mammals, and still others that of the unguiculate mammals.”

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  • “The planet las vegas, worsening from parker from all stoutly the haitian poignancy, compiler in a unguiculate of recurrent motrin.”

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  1. clawed
  1. clawlike
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  1. eutherian
  1. placental mammal
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  1. placental

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  1. muticous
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