UNGULA

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A hoof, claw, or talon.

2.
n.

A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.

3.
n.

Same as Unguis, 3. Spherical ungula (Geom.), a part of a sphere bounded by two planes intersecting in a diameter and by a line of the surface of the sphere.


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