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Elephants vs Hippopotamus - What's the difference?

elephants | hippopotamus |

As nouns the difference between elephants and hippopotamus

is that elephants is while hippopotamus is a large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) african mammal () that spends most of the day living in water, but comes on to land at night to feed of all living land animals, only the rhinoceros and elephant are larger.

elephants

English

Noun

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    • hippopotamus

    English

    (wikipedia hippopotamus)

    Noun

  • A large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal () that spends most of the day living in water, but comes on to land at night to feed. Of all living land animals, only the rhinoceros and elephant are larger.

    • Synonyms

    * (semi-aquatic mammal) hippo, river horse

    Derived terms

    * pygmy hippopotamus

    Related terms

    * hippo- * potamic

    Synonyms

    * hippo, river horse English nouns with irregular plurals English words prefixed with hippo- ----