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ungulate

[ UK /ˈʌnɡjʊlˌe‍ɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having or resembling hoofs
    horses and other hoofed animals
NOUN
  1. any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically

How To Use ungulate In A Sentence

  • How, exactly, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem came to involve at least one flying, no less ungulate with a photoluminescent proboscis, abominable snowmen, a Christmas elf yearning to be a dentist, not to mention more than one lobster... is a bit hard to fathom. David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island
  • Also, Paedotherium, a hare-sized notoungulate that is one of the most abundant mammals of the Pampean Region, has been found in association with burrows.
  • The taxa in this study vary in both size and degree of specialization; prey type ranges from the birds and lizards of small cats and mustelids to the larger ungulates favored by big cats.
  • Horses are members of the odd-toed ungulates, Perissodactyla. Letters to the Editor
  • Many ungulates have also evolved large, complexly grooved molar teeth to grind their food of grasses and other plants.
  • Given that cheese can be described as the rotted bodily fluid of an ungulate, that's not far off. You Eat That?
  • Fossils may tie them to the ungulates, but they seem quite distinct from any extant member of the group.
  • Within the St. Floris region, the most abundant large mammals seem to be kob Kobus kob, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, with other fairly abundant ungulates including waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, oribi Ourebia ourebi, topi Damaliscus lunatus, reedbuck Redunca redunca, roan antelope Hippotragus equines and giant eland Taurotragus derbianus; also buffalo Syncerus caffer, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus and hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius. Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
  • Detailed study suggests that some dentally advanced taxa, ‘Zhelestidae,’ are ultimately related to ungulates.
  • The mammal community includes several ungulates of conservation importance such as the blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), the chinkara (Gazella bennettii), and the small Indian chevrotain or mouse deer (Moschiola meminna). East Deccan dry-evergreen forests
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