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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See hippopotamus.

Wiktionary

  1. n. poetic hippopotamus

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) the hippopotamus.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa

Etymologies

  1. Calque of hippopotamus, from Ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος (hippopotamos), from ἵππος (hippos, "horse") + ποταμός (potamos, "river"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Translation of Greek hippopotamos; see hippopotamus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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