Usually means: Large mammal with massive jaws.
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  1. hippopotamus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hippopotamus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hippopotamus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hippopotamus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hippopotamus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hippopotamus, hippopotamus: Wordnik
  7. hippopotamus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hippopotamus: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. hippopotamus: Wiktionary
  10. hippopotamus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. hippopotamus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. hippopotamus: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Hippopotamus, hippopotamus: Dictionary.com
  14. hippopotamus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. hippopotamus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Hippopotamus (album), Hippopotamus (disambiguation), Hippopotamus (genus), Hippopotamus (restaurant), Hippopotamus, The Hippopotamus (film), The Hippopotamus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Hippopotamus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. hippopotamus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. hippopotamus: Rhymezone
  20. Hippopotamus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. hippopotamus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Hippopotamus: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. hippopotamus: Free Dictionary
  24. hippopotamus: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. Hippopotamus (genus), hippopotamus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hippopotamus: Sound Alike Words
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  3. Hippopotamus (genus), hippopotamus: Medical dictionary

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  2. hippopotamus: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hippopotamus: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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  1. hippopotamus: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius; common hippopotamus).
noun:  Any similar animal of the family Hippopotamidae.

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