Adjective modifier

• huge: We got the shock of our lives as a huge hippopotamus stampeded through before veering off into the night.

Converse of object

• make: Sb also made a hippopotamus out of dough, and a mummy/cask mask.

• include: Here organic material, channeled into gravels has yielded fossil mammals including hippopotamus.

• see: I bet you've never even seen a hippopotamus, much less heard one fart under water.

Converse of subject

• swallow: An Austrian circus dwarf died recently when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a hippopotamus.

Modifies a noun

• tusk: Usually elephant ivory, but also hippopotamus tusk, were used especially among the Congo tribes.

Noun used with modifier

• pygmy: These forests are home to the forest elephant and the pygmy hippopotamus.