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Rhino vs Hippopotamus - What's the difference?

rhino | hippopotamus |

As a noun rhino

is short form of rhinoceros or rhino can be (slang|archaic) money.

As a proper noun hippopotamus is

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rhino

English

Etymology 1

Shortened form of (rhinoceros).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Short form of rhinoceros.

    • Etymology 2

    Unknown

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang, archaic) money
  • * 1835 , (Frederick Marryat), The Pacha of Many Tales
    • There I fell in with Betsy, and as she proved a regular out and outer, I spliced her, and a famous wedding we had of it, as long as the rhino lasted.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops
  • *:--Here you are, says Alf, chucking out the rhino . Talking about hanging, I'll show you something you never saw
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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- ----