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HIPPO REGIUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hippo Regius mean? 

HIPPO REGIUS (noun)
  The noun HIPPO REGIUS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HIPPO REGIUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIPPO REGIUS (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 Regius" 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)


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