cloven-footed

English

Alternative forms

clovenfooted

Etymology

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

Adjective

cloven-footed (not comparable)

Having the foot divided into parts; cloven-hoofed; fissiped.
Synonym: cleft-footed
- 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.

See also

whole-footed

References

“cloven-footed”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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