ungulate

English

WOTD – 12 April 2012

Etymology

From Late Latin ungulātus, from Latin ungula (“hoof”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌŋɡjələt/, /ˈʌŋɡjəleɪt/

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Adjective

ungulate (not generally comparable, comparative more ungulate, superlative most ungulate)

1. Having hooves.
   • 1866, Andrew Murray, The geographical distribution of mammals, page 242:

     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 suggested

   • 1893, The American naturalist‎^[1], volume 27, page 126:

     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, […]

   • 2012, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Collected John Carter of Mars, volume 3:

     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, […]

2. Shaped like a hoof.
   • 1922, Indiana University studies‎^[2], volume 9, page 68:

     […] areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties.

Translations

having hooves

• Armenian: կճղակավոր (hy) (kčġakavor), սմբակավոր (hy) (smbakavor)
• Bulgarian: копитен (kopiten)
• Catalan: ungulat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有蹄的 (yǒutí de)

• Danish: behovet
• Dutch: gehoefd (nl)
• Finnish: kavio- (fi) (having undivided hooves), sorkka- (fi) (having cloven hooves)
• French: ongulé (fr)
• Galician: ungulado (gl)
• Georgian: ჩლიქოსანი (člikosani)
• German: behuft (de)
• Greek: οπληφόρος (el) (oplifóros)
• Hungarian: patás (hu)
• Malay: bertelapuk, ungulat
• Polish: kopytny (pl)
• Portuguese: ungulado (pt)
• Russian: копы́тный (ru) (kopýtnyj)
• Spanish: ungulado (es)
• Swahili: -enye kwato
• Swedish: hovförsedd
• Tamil: குளம்பி (ta) (kuḷampi)
• Welsh: carnol

Noun

ungulate (plural ungulates)

1. An ungulate animal; a hooved mammal.

   The majority of large land mammals are ungulates.

Derived terms

• even-toed ungulate
• odd-toed ungulate

Translations

hooved mammal

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: կճղակավոր (hy) (kčġakavor), սմբակավոր (hy) (smbakavor)
• Breton: karneg m
• Catalan: ungulat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有蹄動物 / 有蹄动物 (zh) (yǒutí dòngwù)

• Czech: kopytník m
• Danish: hovdyr (da) n, ungulat c (scientific)
• Dutch: hoefdier (nl) n
• Finnish: sorkka- ja kavioeläin
• French: ongulé (fr) m
• Galician: ungulado (gl) m
• Georgian: ჩლიქოსნები (člikosnebi)
• German: Huftier (de) n
• Greek: οπληφόρο (el) n (oplifóro)
• Hungarian: patás (hu)
• Italian: ungulato (it) m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hovdyr n

  Nynorsk: hovdyr n

• Polish: kopytne n
• Portuguese: ungulado (pt) m
• Russian: копы́тное живо́тное n (kopýtnoje živótnoje), копы́тное (ru) c (kopýtnoje)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} kopitar, ^{(please verify)} papkar

• Slovene: parkljar m
• Spanish: ungulado (es) m
• Swahili: mnyama mwenye kwato
• Swedish: hovdjur (sv) n, ungulat c (scientific)
• Turkish: toynaklı memeli
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: carnolyn (cy) m
• Yoruba: ẹranko ayasẹ̀

Related terms

• biungulate
• unguiculate
• unguligrade

Further reading

• ungulate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Adjective

ungulate

1. feminine plural of ungulato

Latin

Adjective

ungulāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ungulātus