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单词 hippopotamus
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Definition of hippopotamus in English:

hippopotamus

nounPlural hippopotamuses, Plural hippopotami ˌhɪpəˈpɒtəməsˌhɪpəˈpɑdəməs
  • A large thick-skinned semiaquatic African mammal, with massive jaws and large tusks.

    Family Hippopotamidae: the very large Hippopotamus amphibius, frequenting rivers and lakes, and the smaller pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis), frequenting forests near fresh water in West Africa

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These creatures include fish, crocodiles, turtles, hippopotamuses, monkeys, rodents, and antelopes.
    • The Cape Colony extended systematic protection to elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, buffalo, zebras, quaggas and antelopes in 1886.
    • And those animals were caught, and as the elephant was drowning, the decision was made to destroy the elephant and also the hippopotamus.
    • Initial genetic studies have provided evidence that the marine mammals are most closely related to hippopotamuses.
    • Africans never succeeded in domesticating their animals, like the rhino and the hippopotamus!
    • The hippopotamus is perfectly at home in the water, mating and giving birth there.
    • Artiodactyls range from the rabbit-sized ‘mouse deer’ of southeast Asia to the three-ton giant hippopotamus and ten-foot giraffes.
    • Both could probably fly as well as a helium-filled hippopotamus.
    • Twenty-two days spent tracking elephants, hippopotamuses, and crocodiles in the Okavango Delta.
    • The presence of the manatee and the hippopotamus in the lower levels of the stratigraphic profile at the Ogoloma site is also significant.
    • Arriving in step with East African flora were the creatures of the East African savannas: gazelle, giant deer, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, wart hog.
    • Elephants, ostriches, leopards and lions were imported in the first century B.C., followed by hippopotamus, rhinoceros, camels and giraffes.
    • Mozambique a great diversity of animal life, including zebras, water buffalo, elephants, giraffes, lions, hippopotami, and crocodiles.
    • The giant hippopotamus is the only aquatic artiodactyl, spending most of its time in water.
    • The hippopotamus, for example, has declined by 95 percent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1994, when 30,000 roamed wild.
    • Others - notably of sleek horses, cute lambs, elephants and a hippopotamus - could be auditioning for kitschy animal calendars.
    • Animals with relatively short distal bones, such as elephants and hippopotamuses, have more columnar legs and do little running.
    • The name hippopotamus comes from Greek and means ‘river horse.’
    • This year we have scheduled a tiger, three lynxes, a cheetah, two pumas, a hippopotamus, and 500 rabid rats.
    • Dwarf elephant, hippopotamus and deer disappeared from Mediterranean Islands around the time of human colonization.

Origin

Middle English: via Latin from Greek hippopotamos, earlier hippos ho potamios 'river horse' (from hippos 'horse', potamos 'river').

  • equestrian from mid 17th century:

    Both equestrian and equine (late 18th century) ‘like a horse’ are from Latin equus ‘horse’, a word that goes right back to the earliest times—unsurprisingly, as horses would have been so important to ancient peoples. Its root was also the source of the Greek equivalent to equus, hippos, which is where we get hippopotamus or ‘river horse’.

Rhymes

dichotomous, trichotomous
 
 

Definition of hippopotamus in US English:

hippopotamus

nounˌhɪpəˈpɑdəməsˌhipəˈpädəməs
  • A large thick-skinned semiaquatic African mammal, with massive jaws and large tusks.

    Family Hippopotamidae: the very large Hippopotamus amphibius, frequenting rivers and lakes, and the smaller pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis), frequenting forests near fresh water in West Africa

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Arriving in step with East African flora were the creatures of the East African savannas: gazelle, giant deer, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, wart hog.
    • The giant hippopotamus is the only aquatic artiodactyl, spending most of its time in water.
    • The hippopotamus, for example, has declined by 95 percent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1994, when 30,000 roamed wild.
    • This year we have scheduled a tiger, three lynxes, a cheetah, two pumas, a hippopotamus, and 500 rabid rats.
    • Elephants, ostriches, leopards and lions were imported in the first century B.C., followed by hippopotamus, rhinoceros, camels and giraffes.
    • Mozambique a great diversity of animal life, including zebras, water buffalo, elephants, giraffes, lions, hippopotami, and crocodiles.
    • Artiodactyls range from the rabbit-sized ‘mouse deer’ of southeast Asia to the three-ton giant hippopotamus and ten-foot giraffes.
    • Twenty-two days spent tracking elephants, hippopotamuses, and crocodiles in the Okavango Delta.
    • The presence of the manatee and the hippopotamus in the lower levels of the stratigraphic profile at the Ogoloma site is also significant.
    • Initial genetic studies have provided evidence that the marine mammals are most closely related to hippopotamuses.
    • The Cape Colony extended systematic protection to elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, buffalo, zebras, quaggas and antelopes in 1886.
    • Animals with relatively short distal bones, such as elephants and hippopotamuses, have more columnar legs and do little running.
    • Africans never succeeded in domesticating their animals, like the rhino and the hippopotamus!
    • The name hippopotamus comes from Greek and means ‘river horse.’
    • And those animals were caught, and as the elephant was drowning, the decision was made to destroy the elephant and also the hippopotamus.
    • The hippopotamus is perfectly at home in the water, mating and giving birth there.
    • Both could probably fly as well as a helium-filled hippopotamus.
    • Others - notably of sleek horses, cute lambs, elephants and a hippopotamus - could be auditioning for kitschy animal calendars.
    • These creatures include fish, crocodiles, turtles, hippopotamuses, monkeys, rodents, and antelopes.
    • Dwarf elephant, hippopotamus and deer disappeared from Mediterranean Islands around the time of human colonization.

Origin

Middle English: via Latin from Greek hippopotamos, earlier hippos ho potamios ‘river horse’ (from hippos ‘horse’, potamos ‘river’).

 
 
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