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hippopotamine

hippopotamine adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of hippopotamuses; large, rotund, indulgent.

Adjective

hippopotamine (comparative more hippopotamine, superlative most hippopotamine)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of hippopotamuses; large, rotund, indulgent.
    • The baby animal trotted cheerfully around the grassy enclosure, adorable in her hippopotamine rotundness.
    • It is thus evident that about thirty years is the extreme limit of Hippopotamine existence...1883 January 11, Nature, volume XXVII, number 689, Notes, page 247

Examples of hippopotamine in a sentence

  • Meanwhile, the wonderful series of hippopotamine remains from the Val d'Arno was attracting more attention...1920, Sidney H. Reynolds, “A Monograph on the British Pleistocene Mammalia”, in Palæontographical Society 1920, volume III, London...
  • Away on a hilltop sat combing her hair/His fair Hippopotamine maid...2001 [1957], Michael Flanders, “The Hippopotamus Song”, in John Foster, editor, I've Got a Poem for You, Oxford University Press, page 11:
  • But most important, a dinner of hippopotamine dimensions, portions you can wallow in, can be had, if you're cautious, for $9.50...1972 May 29, Linda Wolfe, New York Magazine, Restaurants, page 76:
  • Fragmentary remains of a relatively small hippopotamine species referred to as imaguncula have been reported from the Western Rift of Uganda...2010, Lars Werdelin, William J. Sanders, Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, Berkeley: University of California Press, page 863:

Forms of hippopotamine

comparativemore hippopotamine
superlativemost hippopotamine

Origin of hippopotamine

From hippopotamus + -ine.

Questions about hippopotamine

What does hippopotamine mean?
Hippopotamine means of, pertaining to, or characteristic of hippopotamuses; large, rotund, indulgent.
How do you use hippopotamine in a sentence?
Meanwhile, the wonderful series of hippopotamine remains from the Val d'Arno was attracting more attention...
What part of speech is hippopotamine?
Hippopotamine is an adjective.

Words near hippopotamine in the dictionary

  1. hippopotami
  2. hippopotamian
  3. hippopotamic
  4. hippopotamid
  5. hippopotamids
  6. hippopotamine
  7. hippopotamoi
  8. hippopotamoid
  9. hippopotamoids
  10. hippopotamos
  11. hippopotamoses

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