Noun

(en noun)

Short form of hippopotamus.

* 2006' "The Eastern Cape village whose dam has been taken over by a '''hippo will decide next week what happens to the animal." ''Weekend Argus 24 June 2006.

Noun

Any of several large herbivorous pachyderms native to Africa and Asia of the five extant species in the three extant genera in the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.

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, year = 1658 , chapter = Of Unicorns Horn , title = Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents And commonly Presumed Truths. The Fourth Edition , first = Thomas , last = Brown , authorlink = Thomas Brown , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=lpZNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA203 , page = 203 , passage = Herein therefore to draw up our determinations beside the several pieces of Scripture mentioning this Animal (which some may well contend to be only meant of the Rhinoceros ) we are so far from denying there is any Unicorn at all, that we affirme there are many kinds thereof. In the number of Quadrapedes we will concede no less then five; that is the Indian'' Oxe, ''Indian'' Ass, Rhinoceros, the Oryx, and that which is more eminently termed ''Monoceros'', or ''Unicornis .}}