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The gorilla, hippopotamus, lynx, and python are a hand full of animals with the similar Latin names.
The scientific name of the river hippopotamus is Hippopotamus amphibius.
The scientific name of the river hippopotamus is Hippopotamus amphibius.
The common name for a hippopotamus is "hippo."
The scientific name of the hippo is Hippopotamus amphibius.
The hippopotamus's historical name means "River Horse"
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Hippopotamus,Yellow jacketThe hippopotamus has twelve letters in its name.
Hippo is short for Hippopotamus. Hippopotamus amphibius is the hippo's scientific name. In Swahili, an East African language, kiboko, pronounced KEE - baw - ka, is the name for hippopotamus.
The name hippopotamus comes from Latin and means river horse. They live in rivers and eat vegetation there. Rhinoceros is also a Latin name meaning nose horn because that's a distinguishing attribute. Rhinos live on land in the bush and eat vegetation too. They are two large and similarly shaped herbivores but I don't know how ancient their common ancestor might be.
The term "hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia" is actually a humorous creation intended to be ironic, as it combines "hippopotamus" with "sesquipedalian," which means long words. The usage of "hippopotamus" with its Latin roots for "horse" is a deliberate play on words to emphasize the fear of long words.
A hippopotamus is sometimes called a river horse.