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cloven-hoofed

[ kloh-vuh n-hoo ft, -hooft ]

/ ˈkloʊ vənˈhʊft, -ˈhuft /

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adjective

having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.

devilish; Satanic.

Also clo·ven-foot·ed

[kloh-vuh n-foo t-id] /ˈkloʊ vənˈfʊt ɪd/.

Origin of cloven-hoofed

First recorded in 1640–50

Words nearby cloven-hoofed

clove oil, clove pink, clovelly, cloven, cloven hoof, cloven-hoofed, clover, cloverleaf, cloverleaf aerial, clovis, clovis i

Example sentences from the Web for cloven-footed

In fact real quadrupeds consist only of whole and cloven-footed animals.

Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) |Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
The cloven-footed animals which do not ruminate are the hog family.

Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnus |William MacGillivray
The 7th is the Cloven-footed Water-Fowl, including those with pinnated feet.

The Mosaic History of the Creation of the World |Thomas Wood
The trot is common to all the single-toed and to nearly all the cloven-footed and soft-footed animals.

Descriptive Zoopraxography |Eadweard Muybridge

Steller's sea-cow (Rhytina Stelleri, Cuvier) in a way took the place of the cloven-footed animals among the marine mammalia.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II |A.E. Nordenskieold