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onychium

onychium noun: a little claw or clawlike appendage, present on some arthropods.

Noun

onychium (plural onychia)

  1. (more often) A little claw or clawlike appendage, present on some arthropods.
  2. (less often) Synonym of nail (“unguis”).
    • What! Another Book on Nails? The decade of the 1980s provided an explosive interest in the diagnosis and treatment of nail disorders. An area of dermatology long neglected by clinical and basic science-research people as well, onychology has rather suddenly become fashionable. The nail unit is no...2018, “First Edition Preface”, in Adam I. Rubin, C. Ralph Daniel III, Nathaniel J. Jellinek, Richard K. Scher, editors, Scher and Daniel's Nails: Diagnosis, Surgery...
    Synonyms:
    nail

Synonyms of onychium

Forms of onychium

pluralonychia

Origin of onychium

From New Latin; by surface analysis, onych- + -ium.

Words formed from onychium

Questions about onychium

What does onychium mean?
Onychium means a little claw or clawlike appendage, present on some arthropods.
What part of speech is onychium?
Onychium is a noun.
What is the plural of onychium?
The plural of onychium is onychia.

Words near onychium in the dictionary

  1. onychial
  2. onychias
  3. onychinus
  4. onychitides
  5. onychitis
  6. onychium
  7. onychiurid
  8. onychiurids
  9. onycho-
  10. onychochilid
  11. onychochilids

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