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hippopotamian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hip-popotami-an
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a hippopotamus.

Etymology

From hippopotamus + -ian.

Inflected Forms

more hippopotamian (comparative) most hippopotamian (superlative)

Questions

What does hippopotamian mean?
Resembling or characteristic of a hippopotamus.
Where does hippopotamian come from?
From hippopotamus + -ian.

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