horseshoe vetch

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsHippocrepis comosa

   Broadersubshrub

Questions about horseshoe vetch

What does horseshoe vetch mean?

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

What is another word for horseshoe vetch?

Close synonyms include Hippocrepis comosa. 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 horseshoe vetch a common word?

horseshoe vetch 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.