ungulantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

ungulant (not comparable)

1. (rare) Synonym of ungulate (“having hooves”)
   • 1999, Shena Mackay, The Worlds Smallest Unicorn, London: Quality Paperbacks Direct, page 18:

     In a red desert landscape, two beasts, coarse-haired, four-footed, ungulant, were pawing the dust, raising their snouts to sniff the scent of distant rain, circling and circling a tree, whose uneasy leaves shivered in the dry wind that ruffled a ridge of bristles along their spines.

   • 2003, Gary Tigerman, The Orion Protocol, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 143:

     The prehistoric caribou they had already liberated was wrapped in a space blanket and carefully tied to a sled. The Science Foundation team had then moved on to a deep translucent blue seam in the ice that proved to be a window on the rest of the ungulant herd standing poised in suspended animation, as if waiting for time to start again.