From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Unguis \Un"guis\, n.; pl. {Ungues}. [L., nail, claw, or hoof.]
1. The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other
appendage.
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2. (Zool.) One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an
insect.
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3. (Bot.) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a
claw; called also {ungula}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ungula \Un"gu*la\, n.; pl. {Ungulae}. [L., a claw, hoof, from
unguis a nail, claw, hoof.]
1. A hoof, claw, or talon.
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2. (Geom.) A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other
solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the
base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a
horse.
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3. (Bot.) Same as {Unguis}, 3.
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{Spherical ungula} (Geom.), a part of a sphere bounded by two
planes intersecting in a diameter and by a line of the
surface of the sphere.
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