||Un"gu*la (?), n.; pl. Ungulæ (#). [L., a claw, hoof, from unguis a nail, claw, hoof.] 1. A hoof, claw, or talon.

2. (Geom.) A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.

3. (Bot.) Same as Unguis, 3.

Spherical ungula(Geom.), a part of a sphere bounded by two planes intersecting in a diameter and by a line of the surface of the sphere.

||Un"gu*la (?), n.; pl. Ungulæ (#). [L., a claw, hoof, from unguis a nail, claw, hoof.] 1. A hoof, claw, or talon.

2. (Geom.) A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.

3. (Bot.) Same as Unguis, 3.

Spherical ungula(Geom.), a part of a sphere bounded by two planes intersecting in a diameter and by a line of the surface of the sphere.