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English
Etymology
From hippopotamus + -ine.[1][2]
Adjective
hippopotamine (comparative more hippopotamine, superlative most hippopotamine)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of hippopotamuses; large, rotund, indulgent.
The baby animal trotted cheerfully around the grassy enclosure, adorable in her hippopotamine rotundness.
1883 January 11, Nature, volume XXVII, number 689, Notes, page 247:It is thus evident that about thirty years is the extreme limit of Hippopotamine existence...
1920, Sidney H. Reynolds, “A Monograph on the British Pleistocene Mammalia”, in Palæontographical Society 1920, volume III, London: Palæontographical Society, I. Hippopotamus, page 2:Meanwhile, the wonderful series of hippopotamine remains from the Val d'Arno was attracting more attention...
2001 [1957], Michael Flanders, “The Hippopotamus Song”, in John Foster, editor, I've Got a Poem for You, Oxford University Press, page 11:Away on a hilltop sat combing her hair/His fair Hippopotamine maid...
1972 May 29, Linda Wolfe, New York Magazine, Restaurants, page 76:But most important, a dinner of hippopotamine dimensions, portions you can wallow in, can be had, if you're cautious, for $9.50...
2010, Lars Werdelin, William J. Sanders, Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, Berkeley: University of California Press, page 863:Fragmentary remains of a relatively small hippopotamine species referred to as imaguncula have been reported from the Western Rift of Uganda...
2017, Edgar Williams, Hippopotamus, Reaktion Books, pages 60, 61:Taweret was a protector of women during pregnancy and childbirth, and of young children. This hippopotamine association derived from the well-known phenomenon of fearless female hippopotamuses protecting their young.
See also
References
- ^ "Hippopotamine", in William Dwight Whitney (editor), The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, vol. III (1889), p. 2838.
- ^ "Hippopotamic", in James Murray (editor), A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), vol. V, part I (1901), p. 298 .