noun
Meaning 1
Hippocrepis genus and any species in it
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
horseshoe vetch
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noun
Meaning 2
Hippocrepis genus and any species in it
often Hippocrepis comosa (tufted horseshoe vetch)
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Hippocrepis comosa
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: subshrub, suffrutex
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: podkovka — Hippocrepis
- Finnish: hevonpalko — Hippocrepis
- Finnish: nystyhevonpalko (H. comosa) — Hippocrepis
- French: fer à cheval — Hippocrepis
- French: hippocrépide — Hippocrepis
- German: Hufeisenklee — Hippocrepis
- German: Hufeisenkraut — Hippocrepis
- German: Pferdehufschote — Hippocrepis
- Italian: sferracavallo — Hippocrepis
- Italian: ippocrepide — Hippocrepis
- Maltese: xintill — Hippocrepis
- Polish: konikleca — Hippocrepis
- Russian: подко́вник (podkóvnik) — Hippocrepis
- Russian: rarely подко́вка (podkóvka) — Hippocrepis
- Russian: подко́ва (podkóva) — Hippocrepis
- Serbo-Croatian: pòtkovica — Hippocrepis
- Serbo-Croatian: rarely pòtkovka — Hippocrepis
- Swedish: hästskoväppling — Hippocrepis
- Ukrainian: підко́ва (pidkóva) — Hippocrepis