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riv·er horse

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hippopotamus, hippo, river horse, Hippopotamus amphibiusnoun

    massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa

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  1. river horse

    The term "River Horse" is another name for the animal species Hippopotamus. The word Hippopotamus comes from the ancient Greek for 'river horse'. It is a large, mostly herbivorous, semi-aquatic mammal and ungulate native to sub-Saharan Africa.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of river horse in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of river horse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of river horse in a Sentence

  1. Edward Dahlberg:

    Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.


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