Hĭp'po-crēp'i-an, n.

noun

n. [See infra.] One of a family of animals, ranked by some with the mollusks, and by others with the zoophytes, — one extremity having a horse-shoe form. Milne Edwards.

An engraving of a plant-like form with a fan of feathered branches rising from an elongated, patterned base. — Hippocrepian.