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unguided | unguiferous | unguiform | unguinous | unguis | ungula | ungular | ungulata | ungulate | ungulated | unguled

ungula

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Noun
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un=gu=la

CIDE DICTIONARY

ungulan. [L., a claw, hoof, from unguis a nail, claw, hoof.].
  •  A hoof, claw, or talon.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Same as Unguis, 3.  [1913 Webster]
Spherical ungula (Geom.), a part of a sphere bounded by two planes intersecting in a diameter and by a line of the surface of the sphere.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ungula, n. (pl. ungulae) a hoof or claw.

Etymology
L, dimin. of UNGUIS

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