ungulate

[ uhng-gyuh-lit, -leyt ]

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adjective

having hoofs.
belonging or pertaining to the Ungulata, a former order of all hoofed mammals, now divided into the odd-toed perissodactyls and even-toed artiodactyls.

hooflike.

noun

a hoofed mammal.

Origin of ungulate

First recorded in 1795–1805, ungulate is from the Late Latin word ungulātus having claws or hoofs. See ungula, -ate¹

Other words from ungulate

in·ter·un·gu·late, adjective

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How to use ungulate in a sentence

The pattern holds for deer and other ungulates in both North America and Europe.
These are the days in the year you’re more likely to hit a deer | Tom Langen/The Conversation | September 29, 2021 | Popular-Science
Transportation agencies, working with scientists, have been developing ways to predict where deer and other ungulates enter roads so they can post warning signs or install fencing or wildlife passages under or over the roadway.
These are the days in the year you’re more likely to hit a deer | Tom Langen/The Conversation | September 29, 2021 | Popular-Science
Overall, given that most US states and more than 70 countries have seasonal “daylight saving” clock shifts, elevated ungulate-vehicle accident rates caused by clock shift may be a widespread problem.
These are the days in the year you’re more likely to hit a deer | Tom Langen/The Conversation | September 29, 2021 | Popular-Science
They found that they belonged to a group called condylarths, or archaic ungulates, which includes the ancestors of today’s hooved animals.
Meet the cat-sized mammals that thrived after the dinosaurs died | Claire Maldarelli | August 18, 2021 | Popular-Science
To find out where these creatures fell in the ungulate family tree, the team compared the fossils to teeth from 25 other condylarths and another more distantly-related early mammal.
Meet the cat-sized mammals that thrived after the dinosaurs died | Claire Maldarelli | August 18, 2021 | Popular-Science

They are both femura, one probably that of an ungulate; the other of a carnivore.
A New Hochelagan Burying-ground Discovered at Westmount on the Western Spur of Mount Royal, Montreal, July-September, 1898 | W. D. Lighthall
This species is the most conspicuous (and possibly the most abundant) ungulate in Harding County.
Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota | Kenneth W. Andersen
The only skull of a fossil lemuroid which he described (namely, Adapis) he declared to be that of an ungulate.
The Last Link | Ernst Haeckel
The pileus is pulvinate-ungulate, much dilated, deeply sulcate; cinnamon, then brown or blackish; very much cracked or rimose.
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise | M. E. Hard
Quadrupeds he was the first to divide into ungulate and unguiculate, hoofed and clawed, having himself invented the Latin words.
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2 | Henry Hallam

British Dictionary definitions for ungulate

ungulate

/ (ˈʌŋɡjʊlɪt, -ˌleɪt) /

noun

any of a large group of mammals all of which have hooves: divided into odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls) and even-toed ungulates (artiodactyls): See perissodactyl, artiodactyl

Origin of ungulate

C19: from Late Latin ungulātus having hooves, from ungula

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Scientific definitions for ungulate

ungulate

[ ŭng′gyə-lĭt ]

A hoofed mammal. Ungulates belong to two orders, Artiodactyla (those having an even number of toes) and Perissodactyla (those having an odd number of toes). See more at artiodactyl perissodactyl.

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