HIPPOPOTAMUS (hippopotami)

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Irregular inflected form: hippopotami   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hippopotamus mean? 

• HIPPOPOTAMUS (noun)
  The noun HIPPOPOTAMUS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HIPPOPOTAMUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIPPOPOTAMUS (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("hippopotamus" 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 ("hippopotamus" is a member of...):

genus Hippopotamus (type genus of the Hippopotamidae)