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river horse
noun
- a hippopotamus.
river horse
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Origin of river horse1
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Example Sentences
The river horse couches there among the bulrushes, and on a great granite throne sits the God Memnon.
The sphinx, river-horse, and crocodile, denote the climate and manufacture of Egypt and the spoils of that ancient province.
Even the huge river-horse of Africa would be swept off his feet and tossed to the surface like one of its froth-flakes.
The explosive balls had both flown true to the mark, invariably a fatal one in the case of the river horse.
Liverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused amongst his reeds by thunder.
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