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hippopotamine

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Hippopotamine (adj) means Like a hippopotamus in size or manner: big, round and self-indulgent.

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Like a hippopotamus in size or manner: big, round and self-indulgent.

"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." — Edgar Williams, Hippopotamus (2017)

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

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