hippo

Converse of object

• see: On our last full day of the trip we drove to the Mara River to see the abundant hippos there.
• include: We played a series of games including hungry hippos, mini football matches and learning different types of training skills.
• watch: I can watch hippos for ages, playing their sinister, slow-motion, peek-a-boo game of silently submerging and reappearing.
• call: There were ongoing bouts of bellowing, snorting, sneezing -- or whatever you might call the many sounds hippos make.
• have: When your child is older he will love to have the musical hippo as a soft, cuddly toy to play with.
• use: Placing a brick in the cistern or using a hippo from the water company can lead to considerable savings.

Adjective modifier

• hungry: Today Paris and I got to coach hungry hippos with minimum supervision.
• pink: George, a pink effeminate hippo, who was shy and seemed to be too happy.
• large: It could actually withstand the weight of 14 large hippos.
• happy: You may click on this snap happy hippos cheap plastic stuff link to find out what the exciting toy is for this week.
• young: The hippopotamus gives birth underwater and nurses its young in the river, but the young hippos must come up periodically for air.
• other: They are not social animals, preferring to live alone or in pairs avoiding other hippos.

Modifies a noun

• bag: With the introduction of free hippo bags the volume of water needed for toilet flushing has been reduced.
• pool: We pitched our tents in a grove of trees surrounded by hippo pools.
• population: Visit Mzima Springs, with it's large hippo population.

Noun used with modifier

• pygmy: Pygmy hippos are extremely rare in the wild, mainly due to deforestation for the timber trade.
• baby: The wardens ' attempts to rescue the baby hippo fail.
• water: Volunteers will go from door to door to encourage residents to save water by installing a water hippo in their toilet.
• kleine: SB had sudden exhaustion, so we watched ' kleine hippo ' dvd, had tea, a very splashy bath and bed.
• mother: Outside, they find a mother hippo in distress, standing guard over her trapped calf.