unguiculate

Other forms of unguiculate

plural

unguiculates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unguiculate

What does unguiculate mean?

unguiculate means "a mammal having nails or claws". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unguiculate?

unguiculate has 5 syllables: un-gu-i-cu-late. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for unguiculate?

Close synonyms include unguiculate mammal, unguiculated. 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.

What is the opposite of unguiculate?

The recorded antonyms are ungulate.

Is unguiculate a common word?

unguiculate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.