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Meanings of river horse in English

Portuguese
hipopótamo
Catalan
hipopòtam
Spanish
hippopotamus amphibius
Wikidata

Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.

hipopótamo
Synonyms
Examples for "hippo"
Examples for "hippo"
1
In three minutes I came out, and found the hippo still quiet.
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
2
I have no doubt I will resemble a hippo on my return.
News.com.au
3
And then, in a tragic accident, Felicia was bitten by a hippo.
Leaving Time
4
In the murmur at the counter he listens for the sighing hippo.
The eye of the leopard
5
Good, I'm a strong man again, but slow like a hippo cow.
Mr. Standfast
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
Usage of river horse in English
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
6
The children gave a great shout and woke up the river horses, as they called them.
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone
7
Now we could trace the marks of horsemen on the plain; and as we travelled up the river horses and cattle appeared on both banks.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
Translations for river horse
Catalan
hipopòtam