Genus Hippocrepis (Noun)
Meaning
Species of Old World herbs or subshrubs: horseshoe vetch.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Hippocrepis is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, commonly known as horseshoe vetch, comprising around 35 species of Old World herbs or subshrubs.
- Some species of genus Hippocrepis, such as H. comosa, are used as food plants by the larvae of certain Lepidoptera species.
- Hippocrepis emerus is a perennial herb in the family Fabaceae that grows in dry meadows and scrublands.
- The genus Hippocrepis is known to contain species with distinctive horseshoe-shaped foliage, hence its common name.
- Plants of the genus Hippocrepis have greenish-yellow flowers in clusters resembling small umbels.