hippopotami
- plural of hippopotamus.
Example Sentences
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Their list mainly included fish, but also mammals like beavers, river dolphins and hippopotami, as well as coldblooded creatures like crocodiles, giant salamanders and alligator snapping turtles.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2020
Sometimes he dances, rather in the manner of the tutu-clad hippopotami in Walt Disney’s “Fantasia.”
From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2016
The plural of hippopotamus is hippopotami, because it's a Latin word ending in -us.
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010
"But such pedantry is frowned upon in common usage, so we are stuck with the equally accepted hippopotamuses and hippopotami."
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010
The boys answered that they had come down-stream to shoot hippopotami for food.
From The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo by Gilson, Charles
