ungulate

[ uhng-gyuh-lit, -leyt ]

adjective

1. having hoofs.
2. belonging or pertaining to the Ungulata, a former order of all hoofed mammals, now divided into the odd-toed perissodactyls and even-toed artiodactyls.
3. hooflike.

noun

1. a hoofed mammal.

ungulate

/ -ˌleɪt; ˈʌŋɡjʊlɪt /

noun

1. See artiodactyl, perissodactyl
   any of a large group of mammals all of which have hooves: divided into odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls) and even-toed ungulates (artiodactyls) See perissodactyl artiodactyl

ungulate

/ ŭng′gyə-lĭt /

1. A hoofed mammal. Ungulates belong to two orders, Artiodactyla (those having an even number of toes) and Perissodactyla (those having an odd number of toes).
2. See more at artiodactyl

Other Words From

• inter·ungu·late adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of ungulate¹

First recorded in 1795–1805, ungulate is from the Late Latin word ungulātus having claws or hoofs. See ungula, -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of ungulate¹

C19: from Late Latin ungulātus having hooves, from ungula

Example Sentences

The pattern holds for deer and other ungulates in both North America and Europe.

From Popular-Science

Transportation agencies, working with scientists, have been developing ways to predict where deer and other ungulates enter roads so they can post warning signs or install fencing or wildlife passages under or over the roadway.

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Overall, given that most US states and more than 70 countries have seasonal “daylight saving” clock shifts, elevated ungulate-vehicle accident rates caused by clock shift may be a widespread problem.

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They found that they belonged to a group called condylarths, or archaic ungulates, which includes the ancestors of today’s hooved animals.

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To find out where these creatures fell in the ungulate family tree, the team compared the fossils to teeth from 25 other condylarths and another more distantly-related early mammal.

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They are both femura, one probably that of an ungulate; the other of a carnivore.

From Project Gutenberg

This species is the most conspicuous (and possibly the most abundant) ungulate in Harding County.

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The only skull of a fossil lemuroid which he described (namely, Adapis) he declared to be that of an ungulate.

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The pileus is pulvinate-ungulate, much dilated, deeply sulcate; cinnamon, then brown or blackish; very much cracked or rimose.

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Quadrupeds he was the first to divide into ungulate and unguiculate, hoofed and clawed, having himself invented the Latin words.

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