ungulate
/ˈʌŋɡjʊlɪt/adjective, noun
ungulate is an adjective meaning “Having hooves” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-G-U-L-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ungulate mean?
adjective
- 1
Having hooves.
- 2
Shaped like a hoof.
noun
- 1
An ungulate animal; a hooved mammal of the clade Euungulata.
The majority of large land mammals are ungulates.
- 2
A member of the now obsolete clade Ungulata.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ungulate?
- /ˈʌŋɡjʊlɪt/
- /ˈʌŋɡjʊleɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ungulate.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-ungulate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of ungulate
- more ungulate comparative
- most ungulate superlative
- ungulates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ungulate?
Ungulate appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Ungulate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does ungulate come from?
From Late Latin ungulātus, from Latin ungula (“hoof”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was substantivized from the adjective through the associated taxon's name (Ungulata), see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).