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Meanings of Hippo in English
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.
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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 English
1
There were no sighting reports of any of the Hippo's family members.
2
Having achieved success with the molar, Hippo was cream-cheesing a second bagel.
3
I told Harry about the cold cases Ryan and Hippo were investigating.
4
Thought he was renting rooms to upstanding young women. Hippo snorted derisively.
5
However, little is known about the signals that regulate the Hippo pathway.
6
Less is known about the contribution of Hippo signaling to liver development.
7
Whatever its origin, Hippo's French was a mystery to my American ear.
8
Could I have been off in my estimate of Hippo's girl's age?
9
However, he permitted the judges of Hippo-Zarytus to admit three hundred soldiers.
10
The town of Hippo was very unruly, full of heretics, schismatics, pagans.
11
Malfunction of the Hippo signaling pathway leads to cancer development and tumorigenesis.
12
Drawing a deep breath, I told Hippo the story of Évangéline Landry.
13
Bonifacius unsuccessfully opposes the Vandals in Africa; they besiege Hippo Regius.
14
The bishop started these institutions in houses bequeathed to the church of Hippo.
15
The Hippo signaling pathway is involved in the pathophysiology of various cardiovascular diseases.
16
A few members of his squad called him High Test Hippo.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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