ungulate

Etymology

From Late Latin ungulātus, from Latin ungula (“hoof”).

adj

  1. Having hooves.
    When Owen wrote his description there was no evidence to determine the character of the extremities, whether they were ungulate, unguiculate, or pinnate, while the structure of the nostrils suggested 1866, Andrew Murray, The geographical distribution of mammals, page 242
    Unlike the serial manus and pes of the edentata the carpus and tarsus are here diplarthrous in structure or displaced upon each other. While the Condylarthra are ungulate with an unguiculate carpus and tarsus, […] 1893, The American naturalist, volume 27, page 126
    Like nearly all the land animals of Jupiter, as I was to learn later, they were ungulate, hoofs evidently being rendered necessary by the considerable areas of hardened lava on the surface of the planet, […] 2012, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Collected John Carter of Mars, volume 3
  2. Shaped like a hoof.
    […] areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties. 1922, Indiana University studies, volume 9, page 68

noun

  1. An ungulate animal; a hooved mammal.
    The majority of large land mammals are ungulates.

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