hippocrepis comosa

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   European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints

   Synonymshorseshoe vetch

   Broadersubshrub

Questions about hippocrepis comosa

What does hippocrepis comosa mean?

hippocrepis comosa means "European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints".

What is another word for hippocrepis comosa?

Close synonyms include horseshoe vetch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hippocrepis comosa a common word?

hippocrepis comosa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.