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cloven-footed en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having the foot divided into parts; cloven-hoofed; fissiped.
    • 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.

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Relateds

whole-footed

Synonyms

cleft-footed