Cloven-footed

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the foot divided into parts; cloven-hoofed; fissiped. not-comparable

    "1966, Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, translator not credited, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 99, The Buffalo clan may not skin any cloven-footed animal nor look at these animals while they are dying."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to the cloven feet of ruminants or swine wordnet

Synonyms

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cleft-footedcloven-hoofed

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"1966, Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, translator not credited, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 99, The Buffalo clan may not skin any cloven-footed animal nor look at these animals while they are dying."

Etymology

From Middle English clovefote, from cloven + foot + -ed.

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