Noun: claw
Sample Sentences
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a narrow base, as the petals of a Rose, where the claw is very short [1857, Asa Gray, First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology:]
Nouns inflected like claw
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English clawe, from Old English clawu, from Proto-Germanic *klawō. Compare West Frisian klau, Dutch klauw, German Klaue, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish klo. See: Middle English Nouns '
clawe', Old English Nouns '
clawu', Dutch Nouns '
klauw', German Nouns '
Klaue'.
Verbs referencing "claw"
German Nouns
Klaue, Dutch Nouns
klauw, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
klo, English Nouns
cley.