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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
unguiculate /ʌŋˈgwɪkjʊlət/

▶adjective

1 Zoology having one or more nails or claws.

2 Botany (of a petal) having a narrow stalk-like base.

– origin C19: from mod. L. unguiculatus, from L. unguiculus ‘fingernail, toenail’, dimin. of unguis ‘nail’.

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