Usually means: Hook-shaped anatomical structure or process.
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  1. uncinate: Merriam-Webster
  2. uncinate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. uncinate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. uncinate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. uncinate: Wordnik
  6. uncinate: Wiktionary
  7. uncinate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. uncinate: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. uncinate: Dictionary.com
  10. Uncinate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Uncinate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. uncinate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Uncinate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. uncinate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. uncinate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. uncinate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. uncinate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. uncinate: Medical dictionary

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (uncinate)

▸ adjective:  (botany) Hooked at the end.
▸ adjective:  (anatomy) Hooked in form; possessing a hook.

Similar:
unciferous, apicifixed, acicular, runcinate, apiculate, apiculated, acuminate, hamose, acinarious, capitellate, more...

Opposite:
cinate, hooked, curved, bent, angled

Types:
fishhook, sickle, crochet, gaff, grapple, harpoon, more...

Phrases:
uncinate process, uncinate fasciculus, uncinate gyrus, uncinate fit, uncinate bundle, more...

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Similar:
unciferous, apicifixed, acicular, runcinate, apiculate, apiculated, acuminate, hamose, acinarious, capitellate, more...

Opposite:
cinate, hooked, curved, bent, angled

Types:
fishhook, sickle, crochet, gaff, grapple, harpoon, more...

Phrases:
uncinate process, uncinate fasciculus, uncinate gyrus, uncinate fit, uncinate bundle, uncinate epilepsy, Uncinate process of pancreas, more...



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