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Hippo

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Hip·po  (hp) also Hippo Re·gi·us (rj-s)
An ancient city of northwest Africa in present-day northeast Algeria south of Annaba. Saint Augustine was its bishop from a.d. 396 to 430.

hip·po  (hp)
n. pl. hip·pos
A hippopotamus.

hippo [ˈhɪpəʊ]
n pl -pos Informal
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) short for hippopotamus
2. South African an armoured police car
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Hippo - an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria
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
2.Hippohippo - massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate - placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot
genus Hippopotamus - type genus of the Hippopotamidae
Translations
hippo [ˈhɪpəʊ] Nhipopótamo/a m/f

hippo [ˈhɪpəʊ] nhippopotame m
hip pocket npoche-revolver f
Hippocratic oath [ˌhɪpəkrætɪkˈəʊθ] nserment m d'Hippocrate
to take the Hippocratic oath → prêter le serment d'Hippocrate

hippo
n (inf)Nilpferd nt

Hippo فرس النهر hroch flodhest Nilpferd ιπποπόταμος hipopótamo virtahepo hippopotame nilski konj ippopotamo カバ 하마 nijlpaard flodhest hipopotam hipopótamo бегемот flodhäst ฮิปโป hipopotam con hà mã 河马


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Cannot Caesar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey?
I've seen them buryin' a chief up the Aruwimi River, and they ate a hippo that must have weighed as much as a tribe.
There was an old hippo that had the bad habit of getting out on the bank and roam- ing at night over the station grounds.
 
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