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Definition of Hippopotamuses
1. hippopotamus [n] - See also: hippopotamus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippopotamuses
Literary usage of Hippopotamuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mostly Mammals, Zoological Essays by Richard Lydekker (1903)
"ANCIENT AND MODERN hippopotamuses THE popular conception of hippopotamuses is
that they are clumsily built creatures of enormous size and bulk, spending the ..."
2. The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored by Georg August Schweinfurth, Ellen Elizabeth Frewer (1874)
"hippopotamuses in a fright. The last obstacle. Depreciation of the Gazelle stream,
Bon- mot ft the Viceroy. Ghattas' namesake. The slipper-shape. ..."
3. Seven Years in South Africa: Travels, Researches, and Hunting Adventures by Emil Holub (1881)
"... kraal—hippopotamuses—Old Sesheke. TOWARDS its mouth the valley of the Chobe
varies from half a mile to three miles in breadth, and the valley of the ..."
4. African Nature Notes and Reminiscences by Frederick Courteney Selous (1908)
"... district—A quick run up the river—Reach Bella Vista—Talk with Portuguese
officer—hippopotamuses seen—Change of weather—Longman engages four lady porters ..."
5. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"ARTIODACTYLA: hippopotamuses, PIGS, AND DEER SUB-ORDER : ARTIODACTYLA. EVEN-TOED
UNGULATES THE leading characteristics of this important modern group of ..."
6. Colonel Gordon in Central Africa, 1874-1879 by Charles George Gordon, George Birkbeck Norman Hill (1881)
"The hippopotamuses are very well—like fat pigs, not a crease in their skins—and
they have such huge mouths, which they always open to you, showing little ..."
7. Colonel Gordon in Central Africa, 1874-1879: From Original Letters and by Charles George Gordon, George Birkbeck Norman Hill (1885)
"The hippopotamuses are very well—like fat pigs, not a crease in their skins—and
they have such huge mouths, which they always open to you, ..."
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