HIPPO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hippo mean? 

• HIPPO (noun)
  The noun HIPPO has 2 senses:

1. an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria

2. massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa

  Familiarity information: HIPPO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIPPO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Hippo; Hippo Regius

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Hippo" is a part of...):

Algeria; Algerie; Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria (a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hippo; hippopotamus; Hippopotamus amphibius; river horse

Hypernyms ("hippo" is a kind of...):

artiodactyl; artiodactyl mammal; even-toed ungulate (placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot)

Holonyms ("hippo" is a member of...):

genus Hippopotamus (type genus of the Hippopotamidae)