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Yang also played a baby hippo version of Roan during the season 50 premiere on Weekend Update.
Weekend Update
This week’s Weekend Update is wholly stolen by Heidi Gardner’s Reba McEntire impression.
—Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Pop stars, quotable movies and shows, Olympic memes and one pygmy hippo dominated pop culture this year.
—Chiara Kim, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
In the area around the rock art, dicynodonts like the pigmy hippo sized Kannemeyeria or the diminutive Lystrosaurus were the most common, and both had tusks.
—Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
According to the Pygmy Hippo Foundation, a pygmy hippo is essentially a smaller version of the common hippopotamus.
—Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2024
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First Known Use
1850, in the meaning defined above
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“Hippo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hippo. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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Nglish: Translation of hippo for Spanish Speakers
Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about hippo
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