Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.
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Examples for "hippo"
Examples for "hippo"
1In three minutes I came out, and found the hippo still quiet.
2I have no doubt I will resemble a hippo on my return.
3And then, in a tragic accident, Felicia was bitten by a hippo.
4In the murmur at the counter he listens for the sighing hippo.
5Good, I'm a strong man again, but slow like a hippo cow.
1There are two cardiac extensions in the hippopotamus and in the peccary.
2In earlier times we were beaten with whips made from hippopotamus skins.
3Some crocodile or hippopotamus crawling through the rushes might craunch the babe.
4They dig pit-holes for the hippopotamus and rhinoceros and occasionally take them.
5It designates a prodigious and enormous beast-therhinoceros, perhaps, or the hippopotamus.
1Their name in ancient Greek translates to " river horse" yet modern science linked the animals to pigs.
2The explosive balls had both flown true to the mark, invariably a fatal one in the case of the river horse.
3This he had already done, and he had exchanged a river horse, worth twenty dollars, for a terrestrial horse, worth twenty piastres.
4He threw coils of the rope about the short legs of the " river horse" and down went the hippopotamus with a thud.
5From the ivory of a river horse's tooth I had endeavoured to carve me a representative of Nais as last I had seen her.
Translations for Hippopotamus amphibius