Ungulate vs Angulate - What's the difference?
ungulate | angulate |
Having hooves.
* 1866 , Andrew Murray, The geographical distribution of mammals , page 242:
* 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]:
* 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]:
* 2012 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Collected John Carter of Mars , volume 3:
Shaped like a hoof.
An ungulate animal; a hooved mammal.
As adjectives the difference between ungulate and angulate
is that ungulate is having hooves while angulate is shaped with corners or angles.As a noun ungulate
is an ungulate animal; a hooved mammal.As a verb angulate is
to make, or to become, angular.ungulate
English
(wikipedia ungulate)Adjective
(-)- 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
- 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,
- areolet of only moderate size; first abscissa of the radius slightly more ungulate than in other varieties.
- 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,
Noun
(en noun)- The majority of large land mammals are ungulates .