ungulate
English
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From Late Latin ungulātus, from Latin ungula (“hoof”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ungulate (not generally comparable, comparative more ungulate, superlative most ungulate)
- Having hooves.
- 1866, Andrew Murray, The geographical distribution of mammals, page 242:
- 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
- 1893, in The American naturalist, volume 27, page 126 [1]:
- 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, […]
- 2012, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Collected John Carter of Mars, volume 3:
- 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, […]
- 1866, Andrew Murray, The geographical distribution of mammals, page 242:
- Shaped like a hoof.
- 1922, in Indiana University studies, volume 9, page 68 [2]:
- […] areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties.
- 1922, in Indiana University studies, volume 9, page 68 [2]:
Translations
having hooves
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Noun
ungulate (plural ungulates)
Translations
hooved mammal
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Further reading
Italian
Adjective
ungulate
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) ungulāte
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