Meaning of hippopotamoi | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“It sometimes happens, that when a herd of hippopotamoi are surprised in a pool which they do not consider sufficiently safe, owing to its want of depth or extent, after being fired at for a short time, they will make a determined rush for a safer position”

“I remember on one occasion, about three years later, when weary with warring against the mighty elephants and hippopotamoi which roam the vast forests and sport in the floods of the fair Limpopo, having mounted a pair of unwonted shot-barrels, I sought recreation in the humbler pursuit of quail-shooting.”

“A most devout man, he devours fruit salad like a herd of hippopotamoi wallowing in the Wallawalla River.”

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