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Definition of Hippopotamidae
1. Noun. Hippopotami.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Artiodactyla, Order Artiodactyla
Member holonyms: Genus Hippopotamus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippopotamidae
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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