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Significados de river horse em inglês

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

        hipopótamo
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        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
        Uso de river horse em inglês
        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
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        hipopòtam