Lip clawed, claw narrow, channelled, furnished at the apex with quadrilobed callus, lamina transversely elliptic to reniform, abruptly reflexed.
(From the first movie: "The Claw!" "The Claw is our master". "I have been chosen! Farewell, my friends. I go on to a better place").
What is not clear is whether the structure is a nail morphing into a claw, or a claw morphing into a nail.
9. Scarface Claw, in Scarface Claw by Lynley Dodd The archenemy of Hairy Maclary, this feline terror brought me endless joy as a child.
All lemurs are characterized by a reflective layer (tapetum) behind the retina in the eye, but no fovea or macula lutea; a hairless, moist tip to the muzzle; a noninvasive (epitheliochorial) placenta; comblike forward-directed lower front teeth (with the exception of the aye-aye); and a claw ("toilet claw") on the second toe of the foot.
On both morphological and zoogeographical grounds, particularly the structure of the foot bones, the Adapidae may have provided the stem from which the living lemurs and lorises evolved; one genus, Europolemur, is even known to have a had a toilet claw, the large claw that in modern species replaces a nail on the second toe of the foot.
There was a man with no fingers on one hand, only a thumb, who was called Thumby — not to be confused with the enormous man called the Claw or Dr. Claw, because one of his hands was frozen in a half-clenched curl.
His "diamond claw setting method" fashions claws out of diamond or other gems rather than metal; while his "inner mortise and tenon" technique relies on interlocking cuts to hold the materials together — a joinery method borrowed from wood- and stone-working.
Niclas pointed out its working claw and the larger fighting claw before swiftly putting a rubber band around each one to stop any pinching.
In revising a piece that quoted Tennyson, for instance, he altered "nature red in tooth and claw" to "nature red in claw and tooth", reasoning that a predator's claws would be bloodied before its teeth.
