uncous
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]uncous (comparative more uncous, superlative most uncous)
- (rare) Curved or hook-shaped.
- 1658: And contemplating the calicular shafts, and uncous disposure of their extremities, so accommodable unto the office of abstersion, not condemne as wholly improbable the conceit of those who accept it for the herbe Borith. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 180)