hippopotamineadj.

1859 Bell's Life in London 13 Feb. Suppl. 1/6 They sat upon all manner of sorts of equine quadrupeds, and the varieties thereof were the elephantine, the hippopotamine, the dromedarian, the bactrian, the alcine..and the scorsine.

1883 Nature 11 Jan. 247/1 About thirty years is the extreme limit of Hippopotamine existence.

1922 S. H. Reynolds Monogr. Brit. Pleistocene Mammalia (Palæontogr. Soc.) III. i. 2 An old tract published in 1669 recording the finding..near Canterbury of bones and teeth which were regarded as hippopotamine.

2003 R. H. Wilkinson Compl. Gods & Godesses Anc. Egypt v. 185/1 Shepet was a female hippopotamine deity who appears to be a form or name variant of Reret or Taweret.

1911 R. Hughes Excuse Me! xv. 114 The porter rendered what aid and correction he could in Wellington's hippopotamine toilet.

1914 New Statesman 7 Feb. 567/1 The poem..is an uninspired ballad, with a good deal of padding, some hippopotamine attempts at humour, and a vigorous jingle that manages to keep the reader going.

1969 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 14 Mar. 33/1 Rising to a height of 6-foot-7 helps make a fellow stand out from a crowd, even one peopled by the hippopotamine types engaged in professional football.

2002 Evening Standard (Nexis) 11 Jan. 38 This method [of wearing leather trousers] emphasises your paunch or incipient paunchhood, while tending..to..make your posterior look positively hippopotamine.