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Definitions of fingernail
  1. noun
    the nail at the end of a finger
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  • quick any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
  • manicure professional care for the hands and fingernails
  • manicurist a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails
  • cuticle the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail
  • hangnail a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected
  • half-moon the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail
  • parer a manicurist who trims the fingernails
  • whitlowwort any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)
  • agnail a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected
  • nail pulling a form of torture in which the fingernails or toenails are removed
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