a. [f. SOLID a. 21 a.] Having the hoof whole or undivided; solidungulate, soliped; spec. as the designation of certain swine.
1842. Prichard, Nat. Hist. Man, 32. There are breeds of solid-hoofed swine in some parts of England.
1848. Buckley, Iliad, 87. Lest the son of Tydeus should drive away thy solid-hoofed steeds.
1864. Bowen, Logic, vii. 203. Some herbivora are solid-hoofed.
c. 1880. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., II. 343. The Solid-hoofed Pigs … show a persistent variation from the even-toed type.
So Solid-hooved a.
1910. Thompson, Aristotle’s Hist. Anim., II. 1. There are in Illyria and in Paeonia and elsewhere solid-hooved swine.
