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hippopotamus
/ˌhɪp.əˈpɑ.tə.məs/
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What does hippopotamus mean?
noun
- A semi-aquatic, herbivorous, African hoofed mammal of the family Hippopotamidae.
- The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius).
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Even the hippopotamus, when threatening with its widely-open enormous mouth a comrade, draws back its small ears, just like a horse.
The first living species of mammals is found in the remains of the hippopotamus that frequented the rivers of Pliocene times.
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Anyhow the small gardener is more likely to succeed raising pheasants than to muss with a hippopotamus, at least in the suburbs.
And there that human hippopotamus stood jumping up and down while he mashed me into the mud like a mole under a pile-driver.
Especially by the river, as here, are the boomings of the weirdest of weird bullfrogs, and the splashings and swishings of crocodile and hippopotamus.