Crossword clues for hippos
hippos
- 'Fantasia' ballerinas
- Zambezi wallowers
- Zambezi River critters
- Thick-skinned river critters
- They can eat 80 pounds of grass a night
- Nile wallowers
- Mammals that mark their territory with defecation
- Large African beasts
- Hungry Hungry ___ (kids' game)
- Big river swimmers
- "Hungry" game characters
- "Hungry Hungry" game critters
Wiktionary
n. (plural of hippo English)
Wikipedia
Hippos (, "horse") is an archaeological site in Israel, located on a hill overlooking the Sea of Galilee. Between the 3rd century BC and the 7th century AD, Hippos was the site of a Greco-Roman city, which then declined under Muslim rule and was abandoned after an earthquake in 749. Besides the fortified city itself, Hippos controlled two port facilities on the lake and an area of the surrounding countryside. Hippos was part of the Decapolis, or Ten Cities, a region in Roman Jordan, Syria and Israel that were culturally tied more closely to Greece and Rome than to the Semitic ethnoi around.
Established as Antioch of Hippos by Seleucid settlers, the city is named after the Greek language word for horse, Hippos, and a common name of Seleucid monarchs, Antiochus. The Aramaic name, Sussita , was also adopted into Hebrew and also means horse, while the Arabic name, Qal'at al-Hisn, means "Fortress of the Horse/Stallion". Other names include the alternate spelling Hippus and the Latinized version of the Greek name: Hippum. The precise reason why the city received this name is unknown.
Usage examples of "hippos".
He continued staring at the German as the bellowing of the hippos began again.
Rice, raising his voice as the chorus of hippos started up once again.
But though there were great herbivores to fill the roles of antelopes, elephants, hippos, and wildebeests, and predators who hunted like lions, cheetahs, and hyenas, these animals were more closely related to birds than to any mammal.
In Africa there were archaic-looking long-necked giant herbivores and creatures like hippos with fat, low-slung bodies and powerfully clawed thumbs.
And what would later be considered tropical animals could be found in North America, Europe, and Asia: In England, the Thames was broad and swampy, and hippos and elephants basked on its floodplain.
In eastern Europe and Asia there were hippos, wild sheep, and goat, red, roe, and fallow deer, boar, asses, wolves, hyenas, and jackals.
This pool was the ideal haunt of both hippos and crocodiles, and Claudia Monterro was in it up to her waist.
Once they splashed into one of the muddy pools of the stream, and they sounded like a herd of cavorting hippos in the silence.
She imported pictures of hippos from her archive to the clothes processor to decorate the suit.
Purple hippos with wide eyes looked over the side of the honey-gold basket.
We disturb land-grazing hippos, who crash back onto the river, sending violent waves toward us.
Janie walked, smiling, past the gibbons howling in their habitat and the pygmy hippos floating calmly in their pool, their eyes shut, green bubbles breaking around them like little fish.