Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus noun - Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.
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Synonyms for Hippopotamus
River-horse and hippopotamus are semantically related. In some cases you can use "River-horse" instead a noun "Hippopotamus".
River-horse
Hippopotamus and river-horse are semantically related. You can use "Hippopotamus" instead a noun phrase "River-horse".
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It extends to Mandarin Chinese as well, with the term for hippopotamus being "河马" (hémǎ), literally river-horse.
Source: Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" - Oleg, the protagonist, found a spell to detect precious metals underground and already thought of using substitutes for a "dragon's vertebra" - a dinosaur's vertebra from a museum, and for "river-horse hair" - a hair of a tame hippopotamus from the zoo.
Source: Eye of Newt
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River-horse and Hippopotamus. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hippopotamus/river-horse
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