hippopotamus

Noun. A large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal (''Hippopotamus amphibius'') that spends most of the day living in water, but comes on to land at night to feed. Of all living land animals, only the rhinoceros and elephant are larger.

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