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onychophorous, a. Zool.|ɒnɪˈkɒfərəs|
[f. as onychopathic a. + Gr. -ϕόρ-ος bearing + -ous.]
Bearing nails or claws; applied to a group (Onychophori) of ophidian reptiles having rudimentary hind limbs, and to an order (Onychophora) of myriapods, comprising the single genus Peripatus, having two chitinoid claws on each limb. So onyˈchophoran a. = onychopathic a.; n. an onychophoran myriapod.
1857Mayne Expos. Lex., Onychophorus, having nails or claws..onychophorous. 1892in Syd. Soc. Lex. |