ingrown toenail

1. 1.

   toenail having its free tip or edges embedded in the surrounding flesh

   Synonymsonyxis

   Broadertoenail

Questions about ingrown toenail

What does ingrown toenail mean?

ingrown toenail means "toenail having its free tip or edges embedded in the surrounding flesh".

What is another word for ingrown toenail?

Close synonyms include onyxis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ingrown toenail a common word?

ingrown toenail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.