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ungulate
n. animal which has hoofs, hoofed animal
 
adj. having hoofs; resembling a hoof


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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 PerissodactylaArtiodactylaTubulidentataHyracoideaSirenia, and Proboscidea. Members of the three orders PerissodactylaArtiodactyla, and Cetacea are called the 'true ungulates' to distinguish them from 'subungulates' (paenungulata) which include members from the ProboscideaSireniaHyracoidea, 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


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ungulato
adj. ungulate, having hoofs

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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.
  

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