uncīnus, i, m. [1. uncus],
a hook , barb (late Lat. for 1. uncus), Ap. Met. 3, 15, 4; Pall. Mart. 10, 29; Vulg. Exod. 28, 13. —As adj.: hamus, barbed , Paul. Nol. Carm. 20, 270.
·noun One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous an...
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