clawless

English

Etymology

From claw +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

clawless (comparative more clawless, superlative most clawless)

1. Having no claws.
   • 1920, Journal of Genetics, volume 9, page 165:

     Where both parents are clawless the progeny also are usually unclawed, indicating that the genetic factors concerned are either wholly lost to the germ plasm or too weak to express themselves in the soma.

   • 2020, Kazerad, ==>, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), August 19 2020

     You are still clawless, and that guard on the wall probably thinks you’re doing some kind of very-low-energy yoga routine.

Derived terms

• African clawless otter
• Cape clawless otter
• Cape Range clawless gecko
• Central Uplands clawless gecko
• clawless draba
• clawlessness
• clawless otter
• Congo clawless otter
• Madagascar clawless gecko
• northern clawless gecko
• Pilbara clawless gecko
• southwestern clawless gecko
• Southwest Kimberley clawless gecko
• western clawless gecko

Translations

without claw

Tamil: வளைநகமற்ற (vaḷainakamaṟṟa)