horseshoe
- n game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes
- n U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof
- v equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes
horticulturist
- n an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants)
horseshoe bat
- n any of numerous bats of the family Hipposideridae of northwest Africa or Philippines or Australia having a horseshoe-shaped leaf on the nose
- n a bat of the family Rhinolophidae having a horseshoe-shaped leaf on the nose
horseshoe crab
- n large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse
horseshoe vetch
- n European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints
horseshoes
- n a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it
- n game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes
- n U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof
- v equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes
horsetail
- n perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America
horsetail family
- n sole surviving family of the Equisetales: fern allies