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Definition: Unguis |
UnguisNoun1. Any rigid body structure composed primarily of keratin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Unguis \Un"guis\, noun; plural Ungues. [Latin expression, nail, claw, or hoof.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | The inelastic, translucent, horny plate formed of flat cornified epidermal cells. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: UnguisSynonym: horny structure (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Retention | Fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum; bond; (vinculum). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unguis |
| English words defined with "unguis": Ungues, Ungula. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "unguis": Lamnunguia ♦ ungual, Unguical, Unguicular, Unguiferous, Unguiform. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Unguis" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (a claw, nail, ungual). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cati macfadyena unguis | 3 |
astraea lithopoma unguis | 3 |
astraea unguis | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unguis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | مخلب (claw, fang, talon), حافر (hoof), ظفر (fingernail, nail, success, victory, win). (various references) | ||||
Danish | negl (nail). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | nagelwal (nail wall, sulcus matricis unguis). (various references) | ||||
French | ongle. (various references) | ||||
German | Unguis (fingernail, toenail). (various references) | ||||
Italian | unghia (claw, fingernail, nail). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uisungay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Unguis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nguoi, Nugai, ugua, uhguis, ungua, uniglumis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: suing, using. | |
-2 letters: gins, gnus, guns, sign, sing, snug, sung. | |
-3 letters: gin, gnu, gun, ins, nus, sin, sun, uns. | |
-4 letters: in, is, nu, si, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: pursuing, subduing, suturing, usurping. | |
+3 letters: caucusing, glucinums, glutinous, ingenuous, squushing, subducing, subsuming, suffusing, sulfuring, unamusing, unhousing, unhusking, uprousing, uprushing, upsurging. | |
+4 letters: burgundies, caucussing, contiguous, fuliginous, inaugurals, lanuginous, leguminous, nidifugous, outcursing, outpushing, outrushing, outsulking, pugnacious, repursuing, subducting, sublingual, succouring, succumbing, succussing, sulphuring, sunburning, unassuming, unblushing, ungracious, untrussing, untrusting. | |
+5 letters: burlesquing, cunnilingus, desulfuring, euglobulins, ferruginous, glutinously, gunrunnings, inaugurates, incongruous, ingenuously, jaguarundis, microfungus, outblushing, outguessing, outhustling, outmuscling, outpourings, outshouting, outsourcing, outstudying, outstunting, sanguineous, sculpturing, slumgullion, structuring, subjugating, subjugation, sulfureting, sulfurizing, suppurating, surmounting, surrounding, unambiguous, unconfusing, undisguised, unreligious, unrighteous, upthrusting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 67 75 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. --. ..- .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100111 01110101 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n g u i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0067 0075 0069 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558073877585 |
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