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ungulate, a. and n.|ˈʌngjʊlət|
[ad. L. ungulāt-us, f. ungula hoof.]
1. Having the form of a hoof; hoof-shaped.
1802R. Hall Elem. Bot. 193 Ungulate, or Hoof-shaped, ungulatus. 1858W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. II. 634 Feet tridactylous, with all the toes insistent, ungulate. 1888G. Allen in Longm. Mag. July 303 The slender and delicate ungulate feet of the gazelles and the chamois.
2. Of quadrupeds: Having hoofs.
The classification was introduced by Ray (1693).
1839G. Roberts Dict. Geol. s.v., An ungulate quadruped. 1872Darwin Orig. Spec. (ed. 6) vii. 179 The competition..must be between giraffe and giraffe, and not with the other ungulate animals. Ibid. xi. 302 The existing horse and certain older ungulate forms. 1875C. C. Blake Zool. 32 The odd-toed division of ungulate Mammalia.
b. n. An ungulate animal.
1842Brande Dict. Sci., etc. 1274/2. 1854 Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 236 In the odd-toed or ‘perissodactyle’ ungulates. 1894Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. II. 152 In all the Ungulates the limbs have entirely ceased to be used as organs of prehension.
So ˈungulated a. rare.
1822Good Study Med. I. 174 Generally speaking, the tenderest food is that of the gallinaceous birds: then that of the ungulated quadrupeds. 1891W. H. Flower Horse i. 11 The ungulated or hoofed animals, and the unguiculated. |