cloven-footed

English

Alternative forms

• clovenfooted

Etymology

From Middle English clovefote, from cloven + foot + -ed.

Adjective

cloven-footed (not comparable)

1. Having the foot divided into parts; cloven-hoofed; fissiped.

   Synonym: cleft-footed

   • 1966, Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, translator not credited, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 99,

     The Buffalo clan may not skin any cloven-footed animal nor look at these animals while they are dying.

See also

• whole-footed

References

• “cloven-footed”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.