hippoboscid
- n bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals
hippocampus
- n a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories
- n seahorses
hippocastanaceae
- n trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
hippocrates
- n medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC)
hippocratic oath
- n an oath taken by physicians to observe medical ethics deriving from Hippocrates
hippocrepis
- n species of Old World herbs or subshrubs: horseshoe vetch
hippocrepis comosa
- n European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints