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Webster 1913 Edition


Unguical

Un′guic-al

,
Adj.
[L.
unguis
a nail or claw. Cf.
Ungual
.]
Ungual.

Definition 2024


unguical

unguical

English

Adjective

unguical (not comparable)

  1. ungual

Quotations

1922 James Joyce, Ulysses (second impression)

[he] ... picked at and gently lacerated the protruding part of the great toenail, raised the part lacerated to his nostrils and inhaled the odour of the quick, then, with satisfaction, threw away the lacerated unguical fragment.