Ungulant

Quick meaning: Ungulant is an adjective meaning (rare) Synonym of ungulate (“having hooves”).

Meaning

(rare) Synonym of ungulate (“having hooves”).

More Meanings

1. (rare) Synonym of ungulate (“an ungulate animal; a hooved mammal”).

Example Sentences

At the time of his study there were probably six hundred lions in Serengeti: plus or minus fifty thousand ungulants a year eaten.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• ungulants

Synonyms for ungulant

Depending on context, synonyms include ungulate.

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