Ingrown

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ingrown \In"grown`\, a.
     Having grown or appearing to grow into some other substance,
     especially a fingernail or toenail growing into the adjacent
     flesh.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]
  


     {Ingrown toenail}, a toenail whose edges have becoming
        imbedded in the adjacent flesh.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ingrown
       adj : growing abnormally into the flesh; "an ingrown toenail"
             [syn: {ingrowing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "ingrown":
     confirmed, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded,
     deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled,
     dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved,
     entrenched, established, etched, firmly established, graven,
     implanted, impressed, imprinted, indelibly impressed, infixed,
     ingrained, inveterate, inwrought, long-established, old-line,
     on a rock, on bedrock, rooted, set, settled, stabilized, vested,
     well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set,
     well-settled