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UNGULATA
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I. (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)
Classified under:
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)