hippopotamus in English

noun
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a large thick-skinned semiaquatic African mammal, with massive jaws and large tusks.
Arriving in step with East African flora were the creatures of the East African savannas: gazelle, giant deer, hippopotamus , rhinoceros, wart hog.
noun
    river horsehippo

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1. Let's begin with the ugliest hippopotamus.

2. This seems hard on the hippopotamus.

3. Among these is Behemoth, or the hippopotamus.

4. So he made friends with a hippopotamus to-

5. Daddy, does this look like a hippopotamus?

6. Behemoth is generally identified as the hippopotamus

7. A huge animal, possibly hippopotamus, described in the Old Testament.

8. The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing in the mud.

9. The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall.

10. Why hippopotamus and giraffe can also get married?

11. For example, in Africa a huge hippopotamus is hard to miss.

12. The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing ( about ) in the mud.

13. Nevertheless, the marriage of hippopotamus with whale is clear.

14. A zookeeper was crushed to death by a hippopotamus.

15. What power Behemoth (the hippopotamus) and Leviathan (the crocodile) have!

16. In one ad, "Spot" was a hippopotamus, which Worthington rode in the commercial.

17. Rin Ju Hippopotamus Ken Baka was the secondary antagonist of Juken Sentai Gekiranger vs

18. Often Behemoth A huge animal, possibly the hippopotamus, described in the Bible

19. Visitors can watch a hippopotamus in the West African River Experience area of the Adventure Aquarium.

20. He must hxdye the strength a hippopotamus, or he never could hxdye vanquished that great beast.Sentencedict.com

21. The government, in its infinite wisdom would pursue this with the ardor and alacrity of a hippopotamus.

22. A four - day old male Nile hippopotamus plays with his mother , Dolly , at Bogor, West Java, Indonesia.

23. 3 Watching her husband relaxing in the shallow waters she was reminded of a hippopotamus wallowing in mud.

24. It includes every kind of artistic endeavour - from conventional watercolours to a pink hippopotamus made out of an old car.

25. Again turning his attention to animal creation, God asked Job about Behemoth, generally identified as the hippopotamus.

26. 23 A biologist who has witnessed this carnage observed that "it is like a tabby cat attacking a hippopotamus".

27. A biologist who has witnessed this carnage observed that "it is like a tabby cat attacking a hippopotamus".

28. The name derives from the carp-like fish called the Barbel which usuualy follows a submerged hippopotamus and feeds on his feces.

29. And a zoo in Brazil is celebrating the birth of a rare pigmy hippopotamus by inviting visitors to vote on its name.

30. A favorite instrument by which they made known their disapproval was the cikoti, a long whip made of cured hippopotamus hide.

31. We understand these to be the hippopotamus (Behemoth), prodigious in size and strong in body, and the formidable Nile crocodile (Leviathan).

32. Based on that description, scholars have concluded that the biblical Behemoth was probably inspired by a hippopotamus, but details about the creature's exact nature were vague.

33. When Trafalgar Square in London was excavated, the river gravels there were found to be stuffed with the bones of hippopotamus, rhinos, elephants, hyenas, lions.

34. Behemoth (great beasts).There can be little or no doubt that by this word, ( Job 40:15-24) the hippopotamus is intended since all the details descriptive of the Behemoth accord entirely with the ascertained habits of that animal.The hippopotamus is an immense creature having a thick and square head, a large mouth often two feet broad, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body, short legs

35. ◦ Depicted with the rear of a hippopotamus, the fore of a lion and the head of a crocodile, Amemet "devoured" the hearts of those judged guilty when their hearts were weighed in the afterworld.

36. 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies Chapter 4 If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all Aperies