a. [f. as prec. + -FORM.] Haring the form of a nail or claw; claw-shaped.
1726. Monro, Anat. Bones, 137. These unguiform Bones compose the anterior internal Parts of the Orbites.
1815. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., iv. (1816), I. 140. Armed with two unguiform mandibles.
1843. Humphreys, Brit. Butterflies, 36. With simple claws furnished with an unguiform appendage.
1866. R. Tate, Brit. Mollusks, iv. 83. The shell … is unguiform.
