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ungulant

ungulant adjective: synonym of ungulate (“having hooves”).

Adjective

ungulant (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Synonym of ungulate (“having hooves”).
    • In a red desert landscape, two beasts, coarse-haired, four-footed, ungulant, were pawing the dust, raising their snouts to sniff the scent of distant rain, circling and circling a tree, whose uneasy leaves shivered in the dry wind that ruffled a ridge of bristles along their spines.1999, Shena Mackay, The Worlds Smallest Unicorn, London: Quality Paperbacks Direct, page 18
    • The prehistoric caribou they had already liberated was wrapped in a space blanket and carefully tied to a sled. The Science Foundation team had then moved on to a deep translucent blue seam in the ice that proved to be a window on the rest of the ungulant herd standing poised in suspended...2003, Gary Tigerman, The Orion Protocol, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 143
    Synonyms:
    ungulate

Noun

ungulant (plural ungulants)

  1. (rare) Synonym of ungulate (“an ungulate animal; a hooved mammal”).
    • At the time of his study there were probably six hundred lions in Serengeti: plus or minus fifty thousand ungulants a year eaten.1990, Justin Cartwright, Look at It This Way, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 176
    Synonyms:
    ungulate

Synonyms of ungulant

Forms of ungulant

pluralungulants

Questions about ungulant

What does ungulant mean?
Ungulant means synonym of ungulate (“having hooves”).
What part of speech is ungulant?
Ungulant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ungulant in the dictionary

  1. unguises
  2. unguitractor
  3. unguitractors
  4. ungula
  5. ungulae
  6. ungulant
  7. ungulants
  8. ungular
  9. ungulate
  10. ungulated
  11. ungulates

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