Talon vs Toenail - What's the difference?
talon | toenail |
A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
(zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
(architecture) A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon .)
The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
In the card game bezique, the remaining stock of undealt cards.
As nouns the difference between talon and toenail
is that talon is a sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal while toenail is the thin, horny, transparent plate covering the upper surface of the end of a toe.As a verb toenail is
to fasten two pieces of lumber together by applying nails or screws into both boards at an angle.talon
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- (Knight)