hippopotamine
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hippopotamus + -ine.[1][2]
Adjective
[edit]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[1], 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[2], 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[3], 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[4], 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[5], 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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 .