hoofed
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4.0
- adjective
- /hufd/
:
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- Farmers raise various hoofed livestock, including sheep and goats.
- hoofed mammals
- hoofed animals
Examples
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Dolphins, for example, descend from a hoofed mammal that adapted to life in the ocean about 50 million years ago.
Academic text (2002) -
We can now show that whales are, in fact, hoofed mammals that took to sea.
Academic text (2001) -
The most diverse group of these hoofed mammals in South America was the notoungulates, eventually comprising hundreds of species.
Academic text (2009) -
The okapi's forest is traversed by many other hoofed animals.
Academic text (1992) -
Hard-hoofed European animals did not thrive on the leached soil; when sheep and rabbits were introduced, their grazing reduced half the continent to a desert.
Blog text (30) -
When I found out Carla had a nature report to write, I took her to Franklin Park Zoo and showed her the hoofed animals, my favorites—she loved the word for them, ungulates; she said it over and over until she couldn't breathe.
Fiction book (1993) -
In the "Age of Mammals," a parade of creatures that once wandered the Earth includes a giant jaguar, an enormous horned animal known as a "thunder beast," and a hoofed mammal whose descendants eventually abandoned land for the sea and turned into whales.
Academic text (2010) -
A diverse suite of "archaic mammals" dominated, including marsupials, at least five different groups of endemic hoofed herbivores (plus the few rare lineages shared with North America), and the edentates.
Academic text (2009) -
Deer and horses are examples of hoofed animals that graze in the fields.
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In the wild, elephants are the largest hoofed animals, roaming in herds.
Synonyms
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Having hooves like a horse or cow
An animal with hooves like a deer or horse
An animal with hard feet like a cow or horse
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hoofed comes from hoof, the hard 'foot' of some animals, and the ending -ed means 'having'. So hoofed means 'having hooves', like horses and zebras.