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from The Century Dictionary.
- The typical subfamily of Hippopotamidæ, distinguished from
Chœropsinœ by the depression of the skull and the prominence of the completed bony orbits. The only recent genus is Hippopotamus; a fossil genus is Hexaprotodon.
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