Hippopotamine

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

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

Etymology

From hippopotamus + -ine.

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