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HIPP

HIPP is the abbreviation of hippocampus.

Meaning of hippocampus

Noun

hippocampus (plural hippocampi or hippocampuses)

  1. A mythological creature with the front head and forelimbs of a horse and the rear of a fish.
    Synonyms:
    hippocamp, sea horse
  2. A part of the brain located inside the temporal lobe, consisting mainly of grey matter. It is a component of the limbic system and plays a role in memory and emotion.
    • Holonyms: limbic system < brain < central nervous system, CNS
    Synonyms:
    HIPP

Proper noun capitalized: Hipp

Hipp (plural Hipps)

  1. A surname.

Forms of HIPP

pluralHipps

Questions about HIPP

What does HIPP mean?
HIPP means a surname.
What is HIPP the abbreviation of?
HIPP is the abbreviation of hippocampus.
What part of speech is HIPP?
HIPP is a proper noun.

Words near HIPP in the dictionary

  1. hipoisie
  2. Hipolito
  3. Hipolitos
  4. hipot tester
  5. hipot testers
  6. HIPP
  7. hipp-
  8. HIPPA
  9. hipparch
  10. Hipparchian
  11. hipparchs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: HIPP (page history and authors); Hipp (page history and authors); hippocampus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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