ungulant

1. not comparablerareSynonym 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

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   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 animation, as if waiting for time to start again.

   2003, Gary Tigerman, The Orion Protocol, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 143

   Synonyms: ungulate

plural ungulants

1. rareSynonym 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