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HIPPO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
Synonyms:
hippo; hippopotamus; Hippopotamus amphibius; river horse
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hippo" is a kind of...):
artiodactyl; artiodactyl mammal; even-toed ungulate (placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot)
Holonyms ("hippo" is a member of...):
genus Hippopotamus (type genus of the Hippopotamidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria
Synonyms:
Hippo; Hippo Regius
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Hippo" is a part of...):
Algeria; Algerie; Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria (a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s)
