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uncus

WordNet
  1. (n) uncus
    (biology) any hook-shaped process or part
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Uncus
    (Zoöl) A hook or claw.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) uncus
    The hook-like anterior extremity of the uncinate convolution of the brain.
  2. (n) uncus
    In entomology, the beak-like mesial prolongation of the eighth abdominal segment of lepidopteróus insects. It forms no proper part of the organs ancillary to generation.
  3. (n) uncus
    The head, hook, or comb of the malleolus or lateral tooth of the mastax of a wheel-animalcule.
  4. (n) uncus
    In botany, a hook.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Uncus
    ung′kus a hook or claw, or a hook-like process: the head of the malleolus or lateral tooth of the mastax of a wheel-animalcule
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. uncus, a hook.

Usage in literature

Scaphium: a ventral process of the 10th abdominal segment in male Lepidoptera below the uncus. "Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology" by John. B. Smith

St Uncus had vanished, and she saw Christopher Mark like a little fat ghost, with his soul shining inside him. "Half-Past Bedtime" by H. H. Bashford