ungulate

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Can't we have a bi-partisan effort for America's largest ungulate, the one the French trappers … oh, never mind.

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  1. adjective Having hooves.
  2. adjective Resembling hooves; hooflike.
  3. adjective Of or belonging to the former order Ungulata, now divided into the orders Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla and composed of the hoofed mammals such as horses, cattle, deer, swine, and elephants.
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  • He had three plants in plastic bags, a holo of some kind of ungulate, and a whole pocketful of rocks. —  Futures Imperfect
  • Mr. Cope thus concludes: "Certain it is that the length of the bones in the feet of the ungulate orders has a direct relation to the dryness of the ground they inhabit, and the possibility of speed which their habit permits them or necessarily imposes on them. —  Darwinism (1889)
  • Distribution maps showing the presence of each ungulate species were established for each period. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Can't we have a bi-partisan effort for America's largest ungulate, the one the French trappers … oh, never mind. —  Sadly, No!
  • It was a zaragoat, a three-horned domesticated ungulate. —  Little Fuzzy
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  1. Latin ungulātus, from ungula, hoof, diminutive of unguis, nail; see unguis.

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  1. from Late Latin ungulatus, having claws or hoofs, from Latin ungula, claw, talon, hoof: see ungula, unguis.
 

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