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单词 horse-foot
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horse-footn.

Inflections: Plural horsefeet.
Forms: see horse n. and foot n. and int.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: horse n., foot n.
Etymology: < horse n. + foot n.Compare Old Icelandic hrossafætr (plural) horses' hooves. With sense 2 compare coltsfoot n. 1a.
1.
a. A horse's foot. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > foot or spec. foot
horse-foot1489
spear-foot1753
stirrup-foot1753
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 362 Knychtis..Wndyr hors feyt defoulyt yar.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5834 The Troiens..Harlet hym fro horsfet, had hym away.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 666 Tvssilago or Folefoote, hath..many great broad leaues..fashioned like an horse foote.
b. attributive. (See Hippocrene n.)
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1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 271 The sacred springs of horsefoot Helicon.
2. The plant Coltsfoot ( Tussilago Farfara); also applied to Tussilago alpina (Mountain Horse-foot).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > coltsfoot
horse-hoof1398
foalfoota1400
wowellc1450
Tussilago1510
coltsfoot1552
bull-foot1562
colt's-hoof1565–73
colt-herb1587
coughwort1597
horse-foot1597
flap-dock1846
clay-weed1878
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 666 Of Coltes foote, or Horse foote.
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. 814 This plant..I haue thought good to name in English Horsefoot, for that the leaues exceed Colts-foot in bignesse, yet are like them in shape.
3.
a. A crustacean of the genus Limulus, also called horseshoe-crab or king-crab.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > order Xiphosura or Merostomata > [noun] > genus Limulus > member of
king crabc1612
horse-foot1672
Molucca crab1681
sea-louse1681
horse-hoof1699
horseshoe1775
saucepan crab1863
horseshoe-crab1865
fiddle-fish1867
xiphosurid1969
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 13 They feed..upon a shell-fish called a Horse-foot.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Horse-Foot,..a crustacean found in our waters from Massachusetts to Virginia, and in some places so abundant as to be used for manure.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Sept. 12/1 [The eels] are fed regularly every day on ‘horse-feet’, a peculiar shell-fish.
b. A fossil molluscan shell ( Hippopodium ponderosum) found in the Lias, so called from its shape.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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