Hippo

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hippo \hip"po\ n.
     Same as {hippopotamus}.
  
     Syn: hippopotamus, river horse, Hippopotamus amphibius.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Hippo
       n 1: an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining
            present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria [syn: {Hippo
            Regius}]
       2: massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around
          rivers of tropical Africa [syn: {hippopotamus}, {river
          horse}, {Hippopotamus amphibius}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "hippo":
     Jumbo, blimp, dinosaur, elephant, fatty, hathi, heavy, heavyweight,
     hippopotamus, jumbo, leviathan, lump, mammoth, mastodon, monster,
     pachyderm, potbelly, rhino, rhinoceros, river horse, roly-poly,
     swagbelly, tub, tub of lard, tun, whale, woolly mammoth