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unguiculate

unguiculate adjective: having nails or claws, as distinguished from hoofs.

Adjective

unguiculate (comparative more unguiculate, superlative most unguiculate)

  1. Having nails or claws, as distinguished from hoofs.
  2. Having a claw or narrow base, like the petal in some flowers.

Noun

unguiculate (plural unguiculates)

  1. Any of the Unguiculata.

unguiculate meaning in Tamil

unguiculate in Tamil

கூருகிரொத்த, உகிரொத்த

Forms of unguiculate

Adjective
comparativemore unguiculate
superlativemost unguiculate
Noun
pluralunguiculates

Origin of unguiculate

Borrowed from New Latin unguiculātus.

Words formed from unguiculate

Questions about unguiculate

What does unguiculate mean?
Unguiculate means having nails or claws, as distinguished from hoofs.
What is unguiculate in Tamil?
Unguiculate in Tamil is கூருகிரொத்த, உகிரொத்த. See Unguiculate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unguiculate?
Unguiculate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near unguiculate in the dictionary

  1. unguessably
  2. unguessed
  3. unguestlike
  4. unguical
  5. unguicular
  6. unguiculate
  7. unguiculated
  8. unguiculates
  9. unguiculi
  10. unguiculus
  11. unguidable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unguiculate (page history and authors); unguiculate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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