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Hippo   /hˈɪpoʊ/   Listen
Hippo

noun
1.
An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria.  Synonym: Hippo Regius.
2.
Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.  Synonyms: hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, river horse.



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"Hippo" Quotes from Famous Books



... Kempe. The visitor will find it convenient to begin his examination of the interior at the North Aisle. The window at the extreme west end of this aisle contains a figure of St. Augustine of Hippo, as Patron of the Augustinian Canons, introduced early in the twelfth century, when the Collegiate Church was transformed ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral • George Worley

... fancies has done him a bad one. So here am I slaving away, a subordinate priest, while such fellows as Peter the Reader look down on me as their slave. But it's always so. There never was a bishop yet, except the blessed Augustine—would to Heaven I had taken my abbot's advice, and gone to him at Hippo!—who had not his flatterers and his tale-bearers, and generally the archdeacon at the head of them, ready to step into the bishop's place when he dies, over the heads of hard-working parish priests. But that is the way of the world. The sleekest ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley

... the bay was a nunatak, which from its shape at once received the name of the Alligator. In front, apparently fifteen miles off, was another nunatak, the Hippo, and four definite outcrops—Delay Point and Avalanche Rocks—could be seen along the mainland. The sight of this bare rock was very pleasing, as we had begun to think we were going to find nothing but ice-sheathed land. ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson



Words linked to "Hippo" :   artiodactyl, even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl mammal, town, Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, Algeria, Algerie



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