noun
ungulate
UNG-gyuh-lit
Ungulate (noun) means a hoofed mammal. Example: “The safari park keeps its ungulates in a large open enclosure.”
noun
1
A hoofed mammal.
"The safari park keeps its ungulates in a large open enclosure."
"Zoologists study how ungulates evolved their hooves."
"An ungulate uses its hooves to move quickly over open ground."
adjective
1
Having hooves, or shaped like a hoof.
"The fossil showed clear ungulate features in the foot bones."
"Researchers examined the animal's ungulate hoof structure."
How to use ungulate
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn ungulate is simply a mammal that has hooves.
When to use it
Ungulate is a technical, mostly zoological term rather than everyday vocabulary.
Memory tip
Remembering the Latin root ungula, meaning hoof, makes it easy to recall what an ungulate is.
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Common pairings
hoofed ungulate
large ungulate
ungulate species
ungulate herd
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Etymology
Ungulate comes from the Late Latin word ungulatus, which itself derives from the Latin ungula, meaning hoof. The noun use developed later, drawing on the taxonomic name Ungulata that was built from the same adjective.
Synonyms
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unguiculate
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Rhymes for ungulate
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What is an ungulate?
An ungulate is a hoofed mammal.
Is ungulate a noun or an adjective?
It can be both: as a noun it names a hoofed mammal, and as an adjective it describes something as having hooves or being hoof-shaped.
Where does the word ungulate come from?
It comes from the Latin word ungula, meaning hoof, by way of the Late Latin ungulatus.
What is the meaning of ungulate?
"ungulate" (noun) means a hoofed mammal.
