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How to pronounce “claw”
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Pronunciation guide for claw
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of claw with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Paul Sereno: What can fossils teach us? 22 minutes
This is a thumb claw. There it was, moments after it was discovered.
- Definition summary
- A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce claw
Paul Sereno: What can fossils teach us? 22 minutes
This is a thumb claw. There it was, moments after it was discovered.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “claw”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A foot equipped with such.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
- (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
- [Verb]
- To scratch or to tear at.
- To use the claws to seize, to grip.
- To use the claws to climb.
- (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
- To move with one's fingertips.
- (transitive, obsolete)
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