ungulate

WOTD – 12 April 2012, 12 April 2013, 12 April 2014, 12 April 2015

From Late Latin ungulātus, from Latin ungula (“hoof”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was substantivized from the adjective through the associated taxon's name (Ungulata), see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

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

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, 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, […]
Shaped like a hoof.
- 1922, Indiana University studies‎, volume 9, page 68:
  […] areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties.

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

ungulate (plural ungulates)

An ungulate animal; a hooved mammal.
The majority of large land mammals are ungulates.
(especially) A member of the now obsolete clade Ungulata.

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

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