Hippopotamidae (Noun)
Meaning
Hippopotami.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Hippopotamidae is a family of large semi-aquatic mammals including hippopotamuses and their extinct relatives.
- The class Mammalia contains the order Artiodactyla, which comprises the family Hippopotamidae.
- Hippopotamidae is considered a biological family by taxonomists who study and classify living organisms.
- The members of the Hippopotamidae family include hippopotamuses, either in the sense of the genus Hippopotamus or the family Hippopotamidae.
- The taxonomy of Hippopotamidae places the hippopotamuses in the clade Whippomorpha with whales.