hippopotamineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

hippopotamine (comparative more hippopotamine, superlative most hippopotamine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of hippopotamuses; large, rotund, indulgent.

   The baby animal trotted cheerfully around the grassy enclosure, adorable in her hippopotamine rotundness.

   • 1883 January 11, Nature, volume XXVII, number 689, Notes, page 247:

     It is thus evident that about thirty years is the extreme limit of Hippopotamine existence...

   • 1920, Sidney H. Reynolds, “A Monograph on the British Pleistocene Mammalia”, in Palæontographical Society 1920‎, volume III, London: Palæontographical Society, I. Hippopotamus, page 2:

     Meanwhile, the wonderful series of hippopotamine remains from the Val d'Arno was attracting more attention...

   • 2001 [1957], Michael Flanders, “The Hippopotamus Song”, in John Foster, editor, I've Got a Poem for You‎, Oxford University Press, page 11:

     Away on a hilltop sat combing her hair/His fair Hippopotamine maid...

   • 1972 May 29, Linda Wolfe, New York Magazine‎, Restaurants, page 76:

     But most important, a dinner of hippopotamine dimensions, portions you can wallow in, can be had, if you're cautious, for $9.50...

   • 2010, Lars Werdelin, William J. Sanders, Cenozoic Mammals of Africa‎, Berkeley: University of California Press, page 863:

     Fragmentary remains of a relatively small hippopotamine species referred to as imaguncula have been reported from the Western Rift of Uganda...

   • 2017, Edgar Williams, Hippopotamus‎, Reaktion Books, pages 60, 61:

     Taweret was a protector of women during pregnancy and childbirth, and of young children. This hippopotamine association derived from the well-known phenomenon of fearless female hippopotamuses protecting their young.

参考

• elephantine
• rhinocerotine
• rhinocerine

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