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‖ unguis|ˈʌŋgwɪs|
Pl. ungues |-iːz|.
[L. unguis nail, claw, etc.]
†1. = ungula 2. Obs.
1693[see ungula 2]. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Pannus, The Pannus is an Excrescence..less hard and membranous than the Unguis.
2. Bot. The narrow part of a petal, by which it is attached to the receptacle.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., In preparing of Medicines, the Ungues..are pull'd off the Flowers. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. iii. (1765) 7 Each Petal consists of Unguis, a Claw, which is the lower Part fastened to the Base. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 284 The inner segments of the perianthium being petaloid, with the stamens proceeding from the top of their ungues. 1879A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §4. 245 The expanded portion of a petal..is the Lamina or Blade; any much contracted base is the Unguis or Claw.
†3. A claw-shaped obstetrical instrument. Obs.—1
1752Smellie Midwif. Introd. p. xii, [Hippocrates] directs us to introduce the hand,..dividing the parts with an unguis fixed on the great finger.
4. Zool., etc. A nail or claw.
c1790Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) VI. 680/1 Tarsus, or foot..Unguis, or claw. 1819Macleay Horæ Entomol. I. 66 The size of their tarsi and ungues, and their comparatively small pectus. 1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 526 Dasyus..has the ungues of the two fore-feet..bifid, the others entire. 1884Coues N. Amer. Birds 102 There it is always terminated by a hard, horny, unguis or ‘nail’, more or less distinct. |