Usually means: Hard, protective covering on digits.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word unguis:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. unguis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. unguis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. unguis: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unguis: Vocabulary.com
  5. unguis: Wordnik
  6. unguis: Wiktionary
  7. unguis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. unguis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. unguis: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. unguis: Dictionary.com
  11. Unguis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. unguis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. unguis: Rhymezone
  14. Unguis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. unguis: FreeDictionary.org
  16. unguis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. unguis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unguis: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

(Note: See ungues as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (unguis)

noun:  (zoology) The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.
noun:  One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
noun:  (botany) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; an ungula.
noun:  (historical) An old measure equal to the length of the nail of the little finger.

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