ungula

Webster's Dictionary (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. [1913 Webster]

2.(Zool.) One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect. [1913 Webster]

3.(Bot.) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; called also ungula. [1913 Webster]

Ungula \Un"gu*la\, n.; pl. Ungulae. [L., a claw, hoof, from unguis a nail, claw, hoof.]

1.A hoof, claw, or talon. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3.(Bot.) Same as Unguis, 3. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]