ungulate — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Having hooves.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • usually

   Examples

   More examples (3)

   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

   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, […]

   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, […]

2. Shaped like a hoof.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • usually

   Examples

   […] areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties.

Noun

1. An ungulate animal; a hooved mammal of the clade Euungulata.

   Broader terms

   mammalvertebrateanimalorganismcreature

   Examples

   The majority of large land mammals are ungulates.

2. A member of the now obsolete clade Ungulata.

   Usage

   • especially

Adjective

1. having or resembling hoofs

   Synonyms

   ungulatedhoofedhooved

   Antonyms

   unguiculate

   Examples

   horses and other hoofed animals

Noun

1. any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically

   Synonyms

   hoofed mammal

   Broader terms

   placentalplacental mammaleutherianeutherian mammal