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unclawed

unclawed adjective: lacking claws.

Adjective

unclawed (not comparable)

  1. Lacking claws.
    • Where both parents are clawless the progeny also are usually unclawed, indicating that the genetic factors concerned are either wholly lost to the germ plasm or too weak to express themselves in the soma.1920, Journal of Genetics, volume 9, page 165

Origin of unclawed

From un- + clawed.

Questions about unclawed

What does unclawed mean?
Unclawed means lacking claws.
What part of speech is unclawed?
Unclawed is an adjective.

Words near unclawed in the dictionary

  1. unclassify
  2. unclassifying
  3. unclassily
  4. unclassy
  5. unclaused
  6. unclawed
  7. unclayed
  8. uncle
  9. Uncle Bob
  10. Uncle Bobs
  11. Uncle Charlie

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