hippo

(hipō)

noun pl. hippos

Informal hippopotamus

Hippo Regius

horse: hippodrome

Origin: < Gr hippos, a horse < IE *ewos > L equus, OE eoh, ON iōr

See hippo in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. hip·pos
A hippopotamus.

An ancient city of northwest Africa in present-day northeast Algeria south of Annaba. Saint Augustine was its bishop from A.D. 396 to 430.

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