(n) European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints, Syn. Hippocrepis comosa
n. [ See Hippocrepiform. ] (Zool.) One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolæma. [ 1913 Webster ]