ungual
IPA: ʌngʌɫ
noun
- A modified toe bone, typically ending in a hoof or claw.
adjective
- (biology) Pertaining to or resembling a creature's nail, claw or hoof; unguinal.
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Examples of "ungual" in Sentences
- A claw is a highly modified ungual phalange.
- Each toe bore a hooflike ungual which was sheathed in horn.
- There are well developed ungual tufts of hair on the hindfeet.
- The fossil YPM 5205 preserves a large, strongly curved ungual.
- The pads are generally poorly developed, as are the ungual tufts.
- The upper skull part was close to the ungual phalanges of a sloth.
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