Word.ws English Dictionary

hippocrepian

hippocrepian adjective: shaped like a horseshoe.

Adjective

hippocrepian (not comparable)

  1. Shaped like a horseshoe.
    Synonyms:
    hippocrepiform

Noun

hippocrepian (plural hippocrepians)

  1. One of an order of freshwater bryozoa (Phylactolaema or Lophopoda) in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe.

Synonyms of hippocrepian

Forms of hippocrepian

pluralhippocrepians

Questions about hippocrepian

What does hippocrepian mean?
Hippocrepian means shaped like a horseshoe.
What part of speech is hippocrepian?
Hippocrepian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near hippocrepian in the dictionary

  1. Hippocratical
  2. Hippocratism
  3. Hippocrene
  4. Hippocrenean
  5. Hippocrenian
  6. hippocrepian
  7. hippocrepians
  8. hippocrepiform
  9. hippodame
  10. Hippodamea
  11. Hippodameia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hippocrepian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hippocrepian.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hippocrepian. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.