Crossword-Solution: UNGUIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Unguis | n. | The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage. |
| Unguis | n. | One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect. |
| Unguis | n. | The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; called also ungula. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “UNGUIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| nail, claw, or hoof, or the part of the digit giving rise to it | 1 answer |
| hoof | 27 answers |
| CLAW ___ | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with UNGUIS (5)
Besides the plants already described, _Bignonia unguis_ and its close allies, though aided by tendrils, have clasping petioles.
Secondly and thirdly, _Bignonia unguis_ with its close allies, and _Cardiospermum_; but their tendrils are so short that their contraction could hardly occur, and would be quite superfluous.
Recall to your memory the beautiful hands of Diana and Minerva, and these two lines of Ovid, which naturally come in here: "Exiguo signet gestu quodcunque loquetur, Cui digiti pingues, cui scaber unguis erit."[E] The nail-paring over, there remains the dressing of the person, to be accomplished by other slaves.
Unguis: one of the claws at the end of the tarsus: also applied to a short process on the 6th antennal joint in some Aphids.
The medieval beliefs about "griffins' claws" still survived to this late date, and a horn cup in the British Museum bears the inscription "Ein Greifen Klau bin ich genannt, In Asia, Africa wohl bekannt." Another horn, probably that of an ibex, is in the same institution, and has a silver mount inscribed "Gryphi unguis divo Cuthberto dunelmensi sacer." The elegant natural curve of the horn adds greatly to the charm of the vessel.