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ungulate

[uhng-gyuh-lit, -leyt] / ˈʌŋ gyə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /


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We hear “the strangled ungulate blurt” of a distressed elk, “the ruminant crunch” of a grazing sheep.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

The Corridor Mapping Team, established in 2018 in response to Department of the Interior Secretary's Order 3362, is a state-Tribal-federal partnership working to map ungulate migration corridors with standard techniques.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

But one ungulate remains unaddressed on the island—the bison.

From National Geographic • Jan. 18, 2024

In this scene, Catherine views the girl as a trinket -- "I want to have this little package on our mantelpiece," she whispers to her husband, freshly returned from slaughtering every ungulate in the region.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2022

What the angry letter writers didn't know, however, was that the ungulate McCandless shot was exactly what he’d said it was.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer