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Meanings of hippo in anglès
Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.
An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria.
Sinònims
Examples for "hippopotamus"
Examples for "hippopotamus"
1
There are two cardiac extensions in the hippopotamus and in the peccary.
2
In earlier times we were beaten with whips made from hippopotamus skins.
3
Some crocodile or hippopotamus crawling through the rushes might craunch the babe.
4
They dig pit-holes for the hippopotamus and rhinoceros and occasionally take them.
5
It designates a prodigious and enormous beast-therhinoceros, perhaps, or the hippopotamus.
1
Their name in ancient Greek translates to " river horse" yet modern science linked the animals to pigs.
2
The explosive balls had both flown true to the mark, invariably a fatal one in the case of the river horse.
3
This he had already done, and he had exchanged a river horse, worth twenty dollars, for a terrestrial horse, worth twenty piastres.
4
He threw coils of the rope about the short legs of the " river horse" and down went the hippopotamus with a thud.
5
From the ivory of a river horse's tooth I had endeavoured to carve me a representative of Nais as last I had seen her.
Usage of hippo in anglès
1
In three minutes I came out, and found the hippo still quiet.
2
I have no doubt I will resemble a hippo on my return.
3
And then, in a tragic accident, Felicia was bitten by a hippo.
4
In the murmur at the counter he listens for the sighing hippo.
5
Good, I'm a strong man again, but slow like a hippo cow.
6
Fiona the baby hippo To be perfectly honest, I don't really get Fiona.
7
The hippo must have slipped past the patch of reeds without our notice.
8
The natives are exceedingly skilful and know all the likely places for hippo.
9
And a hippo lifts its snout from the water to roar at him.
10
We accordingly rode to the spot, and found the old hippo at home.
11
They come running like dickey birds looking for bugs on a hippo's back.
12
It was the hippo, and he told what had taken place.
13
The next morning we had our third and last chance at a hippo.
14
Now he can hear only the frogs and the sighing hippo.
15
I'm talking an animal that lives inside a hippo's rectum kind of rough.
16
He was a happy hippo, and he and I used to drink together.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common