caltrap
/'kæltræp/
📖 中文释义
- n. 拦路钩, 三角钉； 矢车菊, 欧菱
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order
- Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout
- spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The
- species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.
- n. An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any
- three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are
- scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede
- their progress by endangering the horses' feet.