hippopotami
Massive African semiaquatics
Hippopotami is the Latin plural of hippopotamus, those massive semiaquatic African mammals with barrel-shaped bodies and enormous jaws.
The English plural hippopotamuses is equally correct and more common in casual speech: The hippopotami basked in the shallows works, but so does We saw three hippopotamuses at the zoo.
Large flowing watercourse
- submergePlunge beneath liquid
- wallowingIndulging without restraint
- swimMove through water
- freshwaterNon-saline aquatic environment
wetlands · marsh · mud · Nile · delta · riparian · estuary · semi-aquatic
Hostile and confrontational
- territorialDefensive about owned space
- deadlyAble to cause expiration
- lethalCausing or capable of death
- unpredictableCannot be anticipated
powerful · charging · attack · bite · tusks · jaws · trampling · capsizing
Grazing animals together
calf · dominance · territory · vocalizations · grunting · bellowing · honking · hierarchy
Extremely large and heavy
- enormousExtremely large in scale
- bulkyLarge and awkward to handle
- heftyConsiderable in weight
- tonnageShip's weight capacity
weight · barrel-shaped · stocky · thick-skinned · rotund · heavy · megafauna · body mass
river
Large flowing watercourse
freshwater · wetlands · marsh · mud · Nile · delta · riparian · estuary · semi-aquatic · buoyancy
aggressive
Hostile and confrontational
- territorialDefensive about owned space
- deadlyAble to cause expiration
- lethalCausing or capable of death
unpredictable · powerful · charging · attack · bite · tusks · jaws · trampling · capsizing · threat
herd
Grazing animals together
cow · calf · dominance · territory · vocalizations · grunting · bellowing · honking · hierarchy · mating
massive
Extremely large and heavy
tonnage · weight · barrel-shaped · stocky · thick-skinned · rotund · heavy · megafauna · body mass · girth
tusks
Extended animal incisors
jaws · hide · webbed feet · small ears · eyes · nostrils · tail · skull · skeleton · teeth grinding
grass
Narrow-leaved ground cover
- vegetationPlant life collectively
- grazingFeeding on pasture
- pastureGrazing ground for livestock
lawn · riverbank · browse · forage · grassland · meadow · digestion · dung · nighttime