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Definition of Family Hippopotamidae
1. Noun. Hippopotami.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Artiodactyla, Order Artiodactyla
Member holonyms: Genus Hippopotamus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Hippopotamidae
Literary usage of Family Hippopotamidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"The family Hippopotamidae contains of existing genera only Hippopotamus, for the
Liberian dwarf Hippopotamus is not now regarded, as it was formerly, ..."
2. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"The Hippopotamus, the sole representative of the family HIPPOPOTAMIDAE, is nothing
but an enormous Pig; it differs from the ordinary Pig in having all its ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"It typifies not only a genus, but likewise a family, Hippopotamidae, distinguished
from its relatives the pigs and The Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus ..."
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