hippopotamus
IPA: hɪpʌpˈɑtʌmʌs
noun
- A large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius; common hippopotamus).
- Any similar animal of the family Hippopotamidae.
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Examples of "hippopotamus" in Sentences
- Q: What do you call a hippopotamus who rides a train?
- The hippopotamus is the familiar of Hapi, the goddess of the Nile.
- Kirsten Anderson says that this baby pygmy hippopotamus is "ridiculously cute."
- The name hippopotamus was mentioned at least twenty times in the lecture as a dramatic climax.
- What we call a hippopotamus — “river horse” — the Germans call “Flusspferd,” which literally means “river horse.”
- When the Greeks first saw a huge animal in Egypt, they called it hippopotamus, the Greek word for ` water horse. '
- He was called a hippopotamus, and he swam in a tank of water, next door to a pool in which lived some mud turtles and alligators.
- "The word hippopotamus is familiar to you -- and even to small children -- because it has often been used, and because you have seen circus pictures of it.
- As the flesh of the hippopotamus, which is said to resemble pork in flavor, was much desired as food by the soldiers under Baker's charge, he had a small explosive shell constructed, which, fired into the creature's brain, seldom failed to leave its huge body floating dead on the surface of the river.
- [Page 105] up where the tall rushes wave, twisted together by the twining morning-glory vines; far up where the alligators make great nests in the river-bank, and lay their eggs and stretch themselves in the sunshine, half asleep inside their scaly armor; far up where the hippopotamus is standing in his drowsy dream on the bottom of the river, with the water covering him, head and all.
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