woolly hippopotamus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.44 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hypothesized extinct relative to the hippopotamus that supposedly lived in northern or western Europe during the Ice Age.
Example Sentences
- "Above, the woolly hippopotamus (Hippopotamus Major) of western Europe; below, the southern elephant (Elephas Meridionalis). Remains of both are found in the riverdrifts of France and Spain[…]"
- "Here you will find evidence that over the hills of Craven straight-tusked elephant, slender-nosed rhinoceros, woolly hippopotamus, and ox (Bos Primigenius) once roamed, and ended their days in the Victoria cave, a hyena's den, probably during the tropical period of the Great Inter-Glacial period."
- "It is true that the "woolly hippopotamus", now extinct, was adapted to a cold climate!...In 1960, excavations in Larissa in Thessaly brought to light "mammoth and hippopotamus bones as well as tools made of flint and bone[…]"
- "Below these deposits was a thick layer of glacial clay, separating the comparitively modern remains from the bones of pre-Ice Age creatures such as woolly hippopotamus, slender-nosed rhinoceros and straight-tusked elephant, which doubtless roamed the district during the warm inter-glacial period."