HIPPOPOTAMIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hippopotamidae mean? 

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

1. hippopotami

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIPPOPOTAMIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hippopotami

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Hippopotamidae; Hippopotamidae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Hippopotamidae"):

genus Hippopotamus (type genus of the Hippopotamidae)

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

Artiodactyla; order Artiodactyla (an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes)