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.
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Translations for Hippopotamus amphibius