river horse

1. 1.

   massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa

   SynonymshippopotamushippoHippopotamus amphibius

   Broadereven-toed ungulate

   Part ofgenus Hippopotamus

Questions about river horse

What does river horse mean?

river horse means "massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa".

What is another word for river horse?

Close synonyms include hippopotamus, hippo, Hippopotamus amphibius. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is river horse a common word?

river horse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.