hoofletn.
/ˈhuːflɪt/ A small hoof; one of the divisions of a cloven hoof.
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1834 W. Macgillivray Lives Zoologists 211 A crackling noise..is produced by the hooflets striking against each other.
1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. vi. 283 Pliohippus, which has lost the small hooflets, and is otherwise very equine.
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