HORSE'S HOOF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horse's hoof mean? 

• HORSE'S HOOF (noun)
  The noun HORSE'S HOOF has 1 sense:

1. the hoof of a horse

  Familiarity information: HORSE'S HOOF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSE'S HOOF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hoof of a horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

horse's foot; horse's hoof

Hypernyms ("horse's hoof" is a kind of...):

hoof (the foot of an ungulate mammal)

Meronyms (parts of "horse's hoof"):

fetter bone; pastern (the part between the fetlock and the hoof)

fetlock (projection behind and above a horse's hoof)

fetlock; fetlock joint (the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern)

Holonyms ("horse's hoof" is a part of...):

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