Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Walking upon hoofs; having true hoofs; cloven-footed, as a ruminant, or solidungulate, as the horse; belonging to the Unguligrada; not phalangigrade or tylopod.
- noun An unguligrade quadruped.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having, or walking on, hoofs.
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- adjective that walks on
hooves .
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Examples
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'lightweight' distal limb segments; interlocked or fused hand and foot elements; and a subunguligrade or unguligrade stance (unguligrady = condition where the animal bears all weight on its unguals; subunguligrady = similar, but with some weight borne on the penultimate phalanges as well).
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