Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having hooves; ungulate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a hoof or hoofs; ungulate, whether artiodactyl or perissodactyl: distinguished from
clawed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with hoofs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
hoof . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hoof .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or resembling hoofs
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Examples
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Deer have been rightly characterized as hoofed rats, eating anything that grows.
The scourge of suburbia jhetley 2005
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Under the systems of older naturalists the thick-skinned animals were lumped together under the order UNGULATA, or _hoofed animals_, subdivided by Cuvier into _Pachydermata_, or thick-skinned non-ruminants, and _Ruminantia_, or ruminating animals; but neither the elephant nor the coney can be called hoofed animals, and in other respects they so entirely differ from the rest that recent systematists have separated them into three distinct orders -- _Proboscidea_, _Hyracoidea_ and _Ungulata_, which classification I here adopt.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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They have the best deals on all Broadway shows, from Donny Osmond has "hoofed" his way to very the top of the scoreboard with partner
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On the dollar index I was damn close to my prediction until the Dec rally hoofed me in the head.
2009: Quickie post mortem on predictions Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009
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Just think how healthy we all would be if, when taking public transportation, we went 1,000 feet beyond our destination and then hoofed it back.
On Dulles Airport's concourse route, 'C' stands for 'calorie-burning' 2011
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For example, most hoofed herbivores (ungulates, if you like) are able to run very quickly, very soon after they are born (almost always less than a day).
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For example, most hoofed herbivores (ungulates, if you like) are able to run very quickly, very soon after they are born (almost always less than a day).
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Another striking image: a late painting from 1902 called "Barbaric Tales," which depicts an old friend who had died as a cloven-hoofed specter, accompanied by a seated nude woman in a Buddha-like pose.
A Dark Rebel in a Tahitian Paradise Stan Sesser 2011
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When rinderpest was eradicated in the 1960s, the wildebeest and other hoofed species bounced back.
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He was coming right at me-red eyes and all-like a four-hoofed locomotive.
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