Meaning

1 senses
  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of hippopotamuses; large, rotund, indulgent.

    The baby animal trotted cheerfully around the grassy enclosure, adorable in her hippopotamine rotundness.

Origin

From hippopotamus + -ine.

From hippopotamus + -ine.

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Forms

more hippopotamine, most hippopotamine

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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