ungulate
Americanadjective
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having hoofs.
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belonging or pertaining to the Ungulata, a former order of all hoofed mammals, now divided into the odd-toed perissodactyls and even-toed artiodactyls.
noun
noun
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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).
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See more at artiodactyl perissodactyl
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Etymology
Origin of ungulate
First recorded in 1795–1805, ungulate is from the Late Latin word ungulātus having claws or hoofs. See ungula, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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She said wasps on the marshes would have to deal with roaming cattle and sheep, so she challenged her inner "ungulate" to stroll through the office like a "browsing cow".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
We hear “the strangled ungulate blurt” of a distressed elk, “the ruminant crunch” of a grazing sheep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
“The ungulate mother need not die. She was just protecting her offspring.”
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024
The Corridor Mapping Team, established in 2018 in response to Department of the Interior Secretary's Order 3362, is a state-Tribal-federal partnership working to map ungulate migration corridors with standard techniques.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
What the angry letter writers didn't know, however, was that the ungulate McCandless shot was exactly what he’d said it was.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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