exungulate

English

Etymology

From Latin exungulare (“to lose the hoof”), from ex (“out”) + ungula. See ungula.

Verb

exungulate (third-person singular simple present exungulates, present participle exungulating, simple past and past participle exungulated)

1. (rare, obsolete) To pare off (nails, the hoof, etc.).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exungulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)