Etymology From Late Latin ungulātus, from Latin ungula (“hoof”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was substantivized from the adjective through the associated taxon's name (Ungulata), see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
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Usually Having hooves.
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 suggested1866, Andrew Murray, The geographical distribution of mammals, page 242:
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, […]1893, The American naturalist, volume 27, page 126:
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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, […]2012, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Collected John Carter of Mars, volume 3:
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Usually Shaped like a hoof.
[…] areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties.1922, Indiana University studies, volume 9, page 68:
ungulate
noun
Etymology From Late Latin ungulātus, from Latin ungula (“hoof”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was substantivized from the adjective through the associated taxon's name (Ungulata), see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
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An ungulate animal; a hooved mammal of the clade Euungulata.
The majority of large land mammals are ungulates.
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Especially A member of the now obsolete clade Ungulata.