Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Solidungulate or soliped; whole-hoofed; not cloven-hoofed. See cut under
solidungulate .
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- adjective having solid hooves
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Examples
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Someday the genetic engineers will come up with a solid-hoofed pig: Kosher bacon!
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Someday the genetic engineers will come up with a solid-hoofed pig: Kosher bacon!
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Someday the genetic engineers will come up with a solid-hoofed pig: Kosher bacon!
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Someday the genetic engineers will come up with a solid-hoofed pig: Kosher bacon!
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We have formerly given the reason why some animals are large, some smaller, and some between the two, and speaking generally, with regard to the number of young produced, the solid-hoofed produce one, the cloven-footed few, the many-toed many.
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The reason why it does not occur in some is that they produce only one young one, for it is not found in solid-hoofed animals and those larger than these, as owing to their size the secretion of the female is all used up for the one embryo.
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For it is the largest animals that produce one, e.g. the elephant, camel, horse, and the other solid-hoofed ungulates; of these some are larger than all other animals, while the others are of a remarkable size.
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But there are none in the mule; the useless part of the nutriment is discharged with the excretion from the bladder — this is why male mules do not smell to the pudenda of the females, as do the other solid-hoofed ungulates, but only to the evacuation itself — and the rest of the nutriment is used up to increase the size of the body.
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The pig alone produces both many and perfect young, and thus here alone we find any overlapping; it produces many as do the many-toed animals, but is cloven-footed or solid-hoofed (for there certainly are solid-hoofed swine).
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But he points out that this scheme omits some types (snakes, sponges), and that below this level the natural subgroups cut across each other: for example, the classes solid-hoofed, hornless, ruminant are defeated by the “overlapping” types pig and camel.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas D. M. BALME 1968
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