单词 | pygmy hippopotamus |
释义 | > as lemmaspygmy hippopotamus pygmy hippopotamus n. Brit. /ˌpɪɡmɪ hɪpəˈpɒtəməs/ , U.S. /ˌpɪɡmi ˌhɪpəˈpɑdəməs/ , West African English /ˌpiɡmi ˌ(h)ipoˌpɔˈtemɔs/ any of various small hippopotamuses, living and extinct; esp. Hexaprotodon liberiensis, found in or near streams and pools in the rainforests of West Africa.ΚΠ 1874 W. B. Dawkins Cave Hunting x. 378 The pigmy hippopotamus has lived..in other districts of the Mediterranean region... I identified in the Oxford museum a last lower true molar. 1905 Geogr. Jrnl. 26 140 Liberian streams and forests are for the most part frequented by the pygmy hippopotamus. 1958 R. Garnett tr. B. Heuvelmans On Track of Unknown Animals i. 42 Around 1870 a young pygmy hippopotamus, which weighed barely 30 pounds, was sent to the Dublin Zoo. 1991 Antiquity 65 857/1 Recent multi-disciplinary excavations in Cyprus..suggest that people were at least partially responsible for the extinction of local endemics, primarily pygmy hippopotamus (Phanourios minutus ). < as lemmas |
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