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ponyfoot en · NOUN

Etymology

From pony + foot.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A plant of the genus Dichondra
    • “That’s silver ponyfoot,” she said, using the apt common name for a kind of dichondra. 2007 August 16, Anne Raver, “A Connecticut Hillside of Feisty Beauties”, in New York Times:
    • Native basalt was ground especially and mixed with concrete […] to form handsome deep gray blocks (18" x 18") which were placed in sand, the wide joints being planted to ponyfoot 1959, Landscape Architecture, volumes 48-49, page 180:
    • But the Agricultural Extension Services in several southern states have listed dichondra — a member of the bindweed family — under "weeds," where it appears by the name ponyfoot. 1964, LAWNS GROUNDS AND COVERS, page 76: