Crossword-Solution: UNCUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Uncus | n. | A hook or claw. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “UNCUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hooked anatomical part | 1 answer |
| hooked part or process, as in the human cerebrum | 1 answer |
| HOOKLIKE part | 2 answers |
| hooklike process | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with UNCUS (5)
Supra-anal hook: in male of most Lepidoptera, a curved hook attached to the plate covering the genital cavity: = uncus.
Uncus: in Lepidoptera, Diptera, and elsewhere, the curved book directed downward from a triangular dorsal plate in the male and shielding the penis: the genital hamule.
Anteriorly the fissure is arrested by the recurved process of the upper part of the hippocampal gyrus, called the _uncus_, and in front of this a slight sulcus, the _incisura temporalis_, marks off the temporal pole or tip of the temporal lobe from the region of the uncus.
Then she hooked up the boy, and she heard the woman say "Thank God!" and the man say "You little rascal, you!" and then she was back again, and there was St Uncus sitting beside her and rubbing his hands.
The lower portion, the _manubrium_, or handle, gives motion to the upper portion, which from its shape is named the _uncus_, or hook.
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2000).