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Meanings of hippopotamus amphibius in inglés
Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.
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Examples for "hippo"
Examples for "hippo"
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.
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.
Translations for hippopotamus amphibius
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