Adjective:

உரோம குளம்புடைய,

hoofed's Usage Examples:

Paris then hoofed her size 11 feet into the nearest ladies restroom, where she camped out for about 15 minutes in a sad attempt to shake security off her scent.

With time running out Burnley were on the attack when a tangerine defender hoofed a huge ball downfield.

Among jumping animals it may serve as a balance, as in the case of jerboas and kangaroos, while in the latter it is also used as a support when resting; among many hoofed mammals it is used as a fly-whisk; and in whales and dolphins, as well as in the African Potamogale and the North American musquash, it plays an important part in swimming.

In the Miocene Agriochoerus, which typifies a second sub-family (Agriochoerinae), there is no gland-pit in the skull, of which the orbit is open behind; while the upper incisors are wanting in the adult and the terminal toe-bones are claw-like rather than of the hoofed type.

As regards the feet, a reduction in the number of digits from the typical five is a frequent feature, more especially among the hoofed mammals, where the culmination in this respect is attained by the existing members of the horse tribe and certain representatives of the extinct South American Proterotheriidae, both of which are monodactyle.

These bones, although separate, have their adjacent surfaces more closely applied than is the case in the latter; while in this and the earlier genera the terminal toe-bones indicate that the foot was of the normal hoofed type.

More or less independently, Huxley, Kowalevsky and Cope restored the stem ancestor of the hoofed animals, or ungulates, a restoration which has been nearly fulfilled by the discovery, in 1873, of the generalized type Phenacodus of northern Wyoming.

Diet Gazelles, impala, wildebeest calves and other hoofed mammals.

As instances of such combinations, some of the (probably herbivorous) Eocene monkeys with arboreal limbs have teeth so difficult to distinguish from those of the herbivorous ground-living Eocene horses with cursorial limbs that at first in France and also in America they were both classed with the hoofed animals.

Wotton divides the viviparous quadrupeds into the many-toed, double-hoofed and single-hoofed.

Synonyms:

ungulated, solid-hoofed, hooved, ungulate,

Antonyms:

unguiculate, odd-toed ungulate, even-toed ungulate, unguiculate mammal, eutherian mammal,