UNGULATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ungulata mean? 

• UNGULATA (noun)
  The noun UNGULATA has 1 sense:

1. in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)

  Familiarity information: UNGULATA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNGULATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Ungulata" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Meronyms (members of "Ungulata"):

Dinocerata; order Dinocerata (small order of primitive ungulates of the Paleocene and Eocene)

Holonyms ("Ungulata" is a member of...):

class Mammalia; Mammalia (warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female)