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Taxonomy vs Ungulate - What's the difference?

taxonomy | ungulate |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and ungulate

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while ungulate is an ungulate animal; a hooved mammal.

As an adjective ungulate is

having hooves.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    ungulate

    English

    (wikipedia ungulate)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having hooves.
  • * 1866 , Andrew Murray, The geographical distribution of mammals , page 242:
    • When Owen wrote his description there was no evidence to determine the character of the extremities, whether they were ungulate , unguiculate, or pinnate, while the structure of the nostrils suggested
  • * 1893 , in The American naturalist , volume 27, page 126 [http://books.google.com/books?id=G0pKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA126&dq=%22are+ungulate%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tkuGT-GrHYqR8AGw9pCpCA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22are%20ungulate%22&f=false]:
    • Unlike the serial manus and pes of the edentata the carpus and tarsus are here diplarthrous in structure or displaced upon each other. While the Condylarthra are ungulate with an unguiculate carpus and tarsus,
  • * 1922 , in Indiana University studies , volume 9, page 68 [http://books.google.com/books?id=gsUAAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22more%20ungulate%20than%22&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q=%22more%20ungulate%20than%22&f=false]:
    • areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties.
  • * 2012 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Collected John Carter of Mars , volume 3:
    • Like nearly all the land animals of Jupiter, as I was to learn later, they were ungulate , hoofs evidently being rendered necessary by the considerable areas of hardened lava on the surface of the planet,
  • Shaped like a hoof.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ungulate animal; a hooved mammal.
    • The majority of large land mammals are ungulates .