"devil's claw" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: devil's claws [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} devil's claw (plural devil's claws)
  1. Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:
    Sense id: en-devil's_claw-en-noun-Xs6Xe6rE
  2. Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:
    Particularly plants
    Harpagophytum spp., especially Harpagophytum procumbens, native to South Africa.
    Categories (lifeform): Acacias, Four o'clock family plants
    Sense id: en-devil's_claw-en-noun-z9lMNcys Disambiguation of Acacias: 2 14 14 23 15 28 3 Disambiguation of Four o'clock family plants: 3 18 18 22 18 18 3
  3. Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:
    Particularly plants
    Proboscidea spp. (mule grab, unicorn plant)
    Categories (lifeform): Acacias, Four o'clock family plants
    Sense id: en-devil's_claw-en-noun-9ks-l7UO Disambiguation of Acacias: 2 14 14 23 15 28 3 Disambiguation of Four o'clock family plants: 3 18 18 22 18 18 3
  4. Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:
    Particularly plants
    Ibicella lutea (yellow unicorn plant)
    Categories (lifeform): Acacias, Four o'clock family plants, Lamiales order plants
    Sense id: en-devil's_claw-en-noun-0SGOe4ZK Disambiguation of Acacias: 2 14 14 23 15 28 3 Disambiguation of Four o'clock family plants: 3 18 18 22 18 18 3 Disambiguation of Lamiales order plants: 1 18 18 23 18 18 2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 14 21 27 13 15 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 4 9 25 33 10 15 4 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 5 14 21 28 12 13 7
  5. Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:
    Particularly plants
    Pisonia spp. (catchbird trees)
    Categories (lifeform): Acacias, Four o'clock family plants
    Sense id: en-devil's_claw-en-noun-R-5a2fpi Disambiguation of Acacias: 2 14 14 23 15 28 3 Disambiguation of Four o'clock family plants: 3 18 18 22 18 18 3
  6. Anything considered ugly or potentially harmful resembling a claw in appearance or behavior:
    Particularly plants
    Senegalia greggii (catclaw acacia, formerly Acacia greggii)
    Categories (lifeform): Acacias, Four o'clock family plants
    Sense id: en-devil's_claw-en-noun-f~6YxWoB Disambiguation of Acacias: 2 14 14 23 15 28 3 Disambiguation of Four o'clock family plants: 3 18 18 22 18 18 3
  7. (nautical) A metal hook for grabbing a ship's anchor chain. Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-devil's_claw-en-noun-mTzj7s8y Topics: nautical, transport
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (nasty, resembling a claw): αρπαγόφυτο (arpagófyto) [neuter] (Greek), crobh an diabhail [masculine] (Irish), デビルズクロー (debiruzukurō) (Japanese)
Disambiguation of 'nasty, resembling a claw': 17 17 17 17 17 17 1

Inflected forms

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