ungulate
n.
animal which has hoofs, hoofed animal
adj.
having hoofs; resembling a hoof
Ungulate
Ungulates (meaning roughly "being
hoofed" or "hoofed animal") are several groups of
mammals most of which use the tips of their toes, usually hoofed, to sustain their whole bodyweight while moving. They make up several
orders of mammals, of which six to eight survive. There is some dispute as to whether ungulate should be treated as an actual
cladistic (evolution-based) group, or merely a
phenetic group (similar, but not necessarily related), in light of the fact that all ungulates do not appear to be as closely related as once believed (see below). Ungulata was formerly considered an order which has been split into
Perissodactyla,
Artiodactyla,
Tubulidentata,
Hyracoidea,
Sirenia, and
Proboscidea. Members of the three orders
Perissodactyla,
Artiodactyla, and
Cetacea are called the 'true ungulates' to distinguish them from '
subungulates' (
paenungulata) which include members from the
Proboscidea,
Sirenia,
Hyracoidea, and
Tubulidentata orders.
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ungulate
Noun
1. any of a number of hoofed mammals superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
(synonym) hoofed mammal
(hypernym) placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
(hyponym) dinocerate
(part-meronym) hoof
Adjective
1. having or resembling hoofs; "horses and other hoofed animals"
(synonym) ungulated, hoofed, hooved
(antonym) unguiculate, unguiculated
ungulato
adj.
ungulate, having hoofs
Ungulate
(n.)
Any hoofed quadruped; one of the Ungulata.
(a.)
Shaped like a hoof.
(a.)
Furnished with hoofs. See the Note under Nail, n., 1.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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