What is "ungulate" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does ungulate mean in English? Meaning of ungulate definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "ungulate" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "ungulate": any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically

Noun

  • Meaning: any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
  • Synonyms: hoofed mammal ungulate
  • Hyponyms: artiodactyl artiodactyl mammal dinocerate even-toed ungulate odd-toed ungulate perissodactyl perissodactyl mammal
  • Hypernyms: eutherian eutherian mammal placental placental mammal
  • Part Holonyms: cannon hock hock-joint hoof shank
  • Meaning of "ungulate": having or resembling hoofs

    Adjective

  • Meaning: having or resembling hoofs
  • Example: horses and other hoofed animals
  • Synonyms: hoofed hooved ungulate ungulated
  • Antonyms: unguiculate unguiculated
  • Similar: solid-hoofed
  • Adjective: Having hooves. 1866, Andrew Murray, The geographical distribution of mammals, page 242: When Owen wrote his description there was no evidence to determine the character of the extremities, whether they were ungulate, unguiculate, or pinnate, while the structure of the nostrils suggested 1893, in The American naturalist, volume 27, page 126 [1]: Unlike the serial manus and pes of the edentata the carpus and tarsus are here diplarthrous in structure or displaced upon each other. While the Condylarthra are ungulate with an unguiculate carpus and tarsus, […] 2012, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Collected John Carter of Mars, volume 3: Like nearly all the land animals of Jupiter, as I was to learn later, they were ungulate, hoofs evidently being rendered necessary by the considerable areas of hardened lava on the surface of the planet, […]1866, Andrew Murray, The geographical distribution of mammals, page 242: When Owen wrote his description there was no evidence to determine the character of the extremities, whether they were ungulate, unguiculate, or pinnate, while the structure of the nostrils suggested1893, in The American naturalist, volume 27, page 126 [1]: Unlike the serial manus and pes of the edentata the carpus and tarsus are here diplarthrous in structure or displaced upon each other. While the Condylarthra are ungulate with an unguiculate carpus and tarsus, […]2012, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Collected John Carter of Mars, volume 3: Like nearly all the land animals of Jupiter, as I was to learn later, they were ungulate, hoofs evidently being rendered necessary by the considerable areas of hardened lava on the surface of the planet, […]Shaped like a hoof. 1922, in Indiana University studies, volume 9, page 68 [2]: […] areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties.1922, in Indiana University studies, volume 9, page 68 [2]: […] areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties.
  • Synonyms:

    hog, horse, cow, elephant, pig, swine, cattle, tapir, camel, deer, rhinoceros, giraffe, llama, buffalo, hippopotamus,

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