adjective
adjective
- (esp of a toenail) grown abnormally into the flesh; covered by adjacent tissues
- grown within; native; innate
- excessively concerned with oneself, one’s own particular group, etc
- ingrained
1660s, “native, innate,” from in + grown. Of nails, “that has grown into the flesh,” 1878.
adj.
- Grown abnormally into the flesh.