[syn: hippopotamus, hippo, river horse, Hippopotamus amphibius]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
hippo \hip"po\ n.
Same as hippopotamus.
Syn: hippopotamus, river horse, Hippopotamus amphibius.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Hippo
n 1: an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining
present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria [syn: Hippo,
Hippo Regius]
2: massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around
rivers of tropical Africa [syn: hippopotamus, hippo,
river horse, Hippopotamus amphibius]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "hippo":
Jumbo, blimp, dinosaur, elephant, fatty, hathi, heavy, heavyweight,
hippopotamus, jumbo, leviathan, lump, mammoth, mastodon, monster,
pachyderm, potbelly, rhino, rhinoceros, river horse, roly-poly,
swagbelly, tub, tub of lard, tun, whale, woolly mammoth