Definition of Hippopotamidae

1. Noun. Hippopotami.

Exact synonyms: Family Hippopotamidae
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Artiodactyla, Order Artiodactyla
Member holonyms: Genus Hippopotamus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippopotamidae

Hippocrates of Cos
Hippocratic
Hippocratic oath
Hippocratic oaths
Hippocratism
Hippocrepis
Hippocrepis comosa
Hippodamia
Hippodamia convergens
Hippoglossoides
Hippoglossoides platessoides
Hippoglossus
Hippoglossus hippoglossus
Hippoglossus stenolepsis
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
Hippopotamidae (current term)
Hippopotamus amphibius
Hipposideridae
Hipposideros
Hippotragus
Hippotragus niger
Hipsurus
Hipsurus caryi
Hira
Hirado
Hiragana
Hirakata
Hiram
Hiram King Williams
Hiram Ulysses Grant

Literary usage of Hippopotamidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... and the hippopotamuses (Hippopotamidae), and in past times by the ... were evidently nearly affied to the Hippopotamidae, of which they are in all ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Hippopotamidae.—The family Hippopotamidae contains of existing genera only Hippopotamus, for the Liberian dwarf Hippopotamus is not now regarded, ..."

3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1902)
"In my opinion, therefore, this Pleistocene insular form is a slightly modified survivor of Tertiary Hippopotamidae, as is also the recent H. ..."

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