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noun

Unguiculate n. (Zool.) One of the Unguiculata.

adjective

Unguiculated, Unguiculate adj.

Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under Nail, n., 1.

(Bot.) Furnished with a claw, or a narrow stalklike base, as the petals of a carnation.

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Etymology of 'Unguiculate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unguiculate" Quotes from Famous Books

... stem, leaves sessile, glabrous, lanceolate, the upper ones serrate, the lower ones almost entire. Flowers in racemes. Calyx, 4 sepals. Corolla, 4 rounded, unguiculate petals. Stamens 6, two of them short and the other four longer and united in pairs. Ovary flattened. Seed vessel quadrangular, nodular, glabrous, containing many ...

— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera

... hamate^, hamiform^, hamous^; hooked; linguiform^, lingulate^; lobiform^, lunate, navicular^, peltate^, remiform^, rhamphoid^; rostrate^, rostriferous^, rostroid^; scutate^, scaphoid^, uncate^; unguiculate^, unguiform^. ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget