Unciform

[ʌnsifɒ:m]

解释:

(a.) Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike.

(n.) The unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla.

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解释:

adj. hook-shaped.—adjs. Uncif′erous having a hook as an ovipositor; Un′cinal Un′cinate hooked at the end.—n.pl. Uncinā′ta a division of marine ch鎡opod worms—serpulas and other tubicolous worms.—ns. Uncinā′tum the unciform bone of the carpus; Uncī′nus a hooklet hamulus one of the uncial teeth of the radula:—pl. Uncī′ni (ī).—adj. Unciros′trāte having a hooked beak.

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