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HORSE'S FOOT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hoof of a horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("horse's foot" is a kind of...):

hoof (the foot of an ungulate mammal)

Meronyms (parts of "horse's foot"):

fetter bone; pastern (the part between the fetlock and the hoof)

fetlock (projection behind and above a horse's hoof)

fetlock; fetlock joint (the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern)

Holonyms ("horse's foot" is a part of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

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