ungulate

/uhng-gyuh-lit, -leyt/US // ˈʌŋ gyə lɪt, -ˌleɪt //UK // (ˈʌŋɡjʊlɪt, -ˌleɪt) //

无齿动物,啮齿动物,岫岩,无尾熊

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : having hoofs.
- : belonging or pertaining to the Ungulata, a former order of all hoofed mammals, now divided into the odd-toed perissodactyls and even-toed artiodactyls.
- : hooflike.

n.名词 noun

nounhoofed animal

Synonyms

The pattern holds for deer and other ungulates in both North America and Europe.
They found that they belonged to a group called condylarths, or archaic ungulates, which includes the ancestors of today’s hooved animals.
To find out where these creatures fell in the ungulate family tree, the team compared the fossils to teeth from 25 other condylarths and another more distantly-related early mammal.
From birds to ungulates to predators, most animals evolved to blend into their habitats.
They are both femura, one probably that of an ungulate; the other of a carnivore.
This species is the most conspicuous (and possibly the most abundant) ungulate in Harding County.
The only skull of a fossil lemuroid which he described (namely, Adapis) he declared to be that of an ungulate.
The pileus is pulvinate-ungulate, much dilated, deeply sulcate; cinnamon, then brown or blackish; very much cracked or rimose.
Quadrupeds he was the first to divide into ungulate and unguiculate, hoofed and clawed, having himself invented the Latin words.