a. and sb. [ad. L. ungulāt-us, f. ungula hoof.]
1. Having the form of a hoof; hoof-shaped.
1802. R. Hall, Elem. Bot., 193. Ungulate, or Hoof-shaped, ungulatus.
1858. W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., II. 634. Feet tridactylous, with all the toes insistent, ungulate.
1888. G. Allen, in Longm. Mag., July, 303. The slender and delicate ungulate feet of the gazelles and the chamois.
2. Of quadrupeds: Having hoofs.
The classification was introduced by Ray (1693).
1839. G. Roberts, Dict. Geol., s.v., An ungulate quadruped.
1872. Darwin, Orig. Spec. (ed. 6), vii. 179. The competition … must be between giraffe and giraffe, and not with the other ungulate animals. Ibid., xi. 302. The existing horse and certain older ungulate forms.
1875. C. C. Blake, Zool., 32. The odd-toed division of ungulate Mammalia.
b. sb. An ungulate animal.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sci., etc., 1274/2.
1854. Owen, in Orr’s Circ. Sci., Org. Nat., I. 236. In the odd-toed or ‘perissodactyle’ ungulates.
1894. Lydekker, Roy. Nat. Hist., II. 152. In all the Ungulates the limbs have entirely ceased to be used as organs of prehension.
So Ungulated a. rare.
1822. Good, Study Med., I. 174. Generally speaking, the tenderest food is that of the gallinaceous birds; then that of the ungulated quadrupeds.
1891. W. H. Flower, Horse, i. 11. The ungulated or hoofed animals, and the unguiculated.
