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Meanings of hippopotamus in English

Russian
hippopotamus amphibius
Portuguese
hippopotamus amphibius
Spanish
hippopotamus amphibius
Catalan
hippopotamus amphibius
Wikidata

Species of pachyderm.

        Related terms
        hippopotamus amphibius
        Synonyms
        Examples for "river horse"
        Examples for "river horse"
        1
        Their name in ancient Greek translates to " river horse" yet modern science linked the animals to pigs.
        BBC
        2
        The explosive balls had both flown true to the mark, invariably a fatal one in the case of the river horse.
        By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
        3
        This he had already done, and he had exchanged a river horse, worth twenty dollars, for a terrestrial horse, worth twenty piastres.
        The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the ...
        4
        He threw coils of the rope about the short legs of the " river horse" and down went the hippopotamus with a thud.
        Joe Strong, the Boy Fish; or, Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank
        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.
        The Lost Continent
        Usage of hippopotamus in English
        1
        There are two cardiac extensions in the hippopotamus and in the peccary.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        2
        In earlier times we were beaten with whips made from hippopotamus skins.
        The eye of the leopard
        3
        Some crocodile or hippopotamus crawling through the rushes might craunch the babe.
        The Wedding Ring / A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives...
        4
        They dig pit-holes for the hippopotamus and rhinoceros and occasionally take them.
        The Mission
        5
        It designates a prodigious and enormous beast-therhinoceros, perhaps, or the hippopotamus.
        The Cathedral
        6
        And he was the jolliest hippopotamus that ancient family had ever known.
        American Fairy Tales
        7
        When the process is completed they are poetically likened to a hippopotamus.
        Primitive Love and Love-Stories
        8
        It's as good as the sacred white elephant or the blood-sweating hippopotamus.
        Twelve Men
        9
        Her gambols were too sadly suggestive of those of a skittish hippopotamus.
        The Far Horizon
        10
        We see that it hurries discreetly, this silhouette of a bearded hippopotamus.
        Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
        11
        A hippopotamus woman looped in beads makes the microphone scream with feedback.
        Number9Dream
        12
        Beneath the hand of the younger idol-maker, the hippopotamus grew in hideous perfection.
        Out of the Triangle: A Story of the Far East
        13
        The delight he took in the hippopotamus family was most exhilarating.
        Yesterdays with Authors
        14
        The specific gravity of the elephant differs considerably from that of the hippopotamus.
        Ismailia
        15
        Impossible to distinguish between animal and vegetable in some infusoria-buthippopotamus and violet.
        The Book of the Damned
        16
        The pleasantry was as awkward as the gambols of a hippopotamus.
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3