Sep. 14th, 2018

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hippocrepiform (hip-poh-KREP-i-form) - adj., shaped like a horseshoe.


A hippocrepiform horseshoe
Thanks, WikiMedia!

Aside from it's from coined from mixed Greek and Latin roots hippos, horse + krēpis, boot + -form, shape of, I got nothing.

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