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Unclewed vs Unclawed - What's the difference?

unclewed | unclawed |

As a verb unclewed

is past tense of unclew.

As an adjective unclawed is

lacking claws.

unclewed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (unclew)

    • unclew

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To unwind, unfold, or untie.
  • (figuratively) To undo; to ruin.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

    unclawed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lacking claws.
  • * 1920 , Journal of Genetics (volume 9, page 165)
    • Where both parents are clawless the progeny also are usually unclawed , indicating that the genetic factors concerned are either wholly lost to the germ plasm or too weak to express themselves in the soma.