单词 | periople |
释义 | perioplen. The smooth, shiny outer layer of an animal's, esp. a horse's, hoof. ΚΠ 1884 J. MacFadyean Anat. of Horse i. 36 The External Surface of the [hoof] wall is..covered by a kind of epithelial varnish termed the periople. 1912 Hawaiian Forester & Agriculturist 9 320 Removal of the periople by excessive rasping is a pre-disposed cause. 1965 F. Gerrard Macgregor's Struct. Meat Animals (ed. 2) iv. 75 The sebum is replaced by Periople, a substance resembling varnish and secreted by a ring of glands on the skin round the outer edge of the horn. 1993 Western Horseman Apr. 127/1 Any attempt to rasp off the flare above the sole level will only result in..removing the periople, or varnish-like substance that covers the hoof. 2000 Herbert River Express (Austral.) (Nexis) 23 May 10 A horse's hoof has an ideal moisture level and part of the mechanism to maintain this is the periople, the shiny outer layer of the hoof. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1884 |
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