ENCOLURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encolure mean? 

• ENCOLURE (noun)
  The noun ENCOLURE has 1 sense:

1. the mane of a horse

  Familiarity information: ENCOLURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCOLURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The mane of a horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("encolure" is a kind of...):

mane (long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck)

Meronyms (parts of "encolure"):

forelock; foretop (a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears)

Holonyms ("encolure" is a part of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)