pygmy hippopotamus

English

Noun

pygmy hippopotamus (plural pygmy hippopotamuses or pygmy hippopotami or pygmy hippopotamus)

1. A large four-toed, four-legged mammal native to western Africa of species Choeropsis liberiensis (syn. Hexaprotodon liberiensis), similar to but half the height of the common hippopotamus.

Synonyms

• (mammal): pygmy hippo

Translations

Choeropsis liberiensis

• Assamese: সৰু জলহস্তী (xoru zolohosti)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倭河馬 / 倭河马 (wōhémǎ)

• Dutch: dwergnijlpaard (nl) n
• Finnish: kääpiövirtahepo, pikkuvirtahepo
• French: hippopotame nain (fr) m
• Georgian: ჯუჯა ბეჰემოთი (ǯuǯa behemoti), ლიბერიული ბეჰემოთი (liberiuli behemoti)
• German: Zwergflusspferd (de) n
• Hungarian: törpe víziló
• Polish: hipopotam karłowaty m
• Russian: ка́рликовый бегемо́т m (kárlikovyj begemót), либери́йский ка́рликовый бегемо́т m (liberíjskij kárlikovyj begemót), ка́рликовый гиппопота́м m (kárlikovyj gippopotám)
• Swedish: dvärgflodhäst c

See also

• Choeropsis

Further reading

• pygmy hippopotamus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Choeropsis liberiensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Choeropsis liberiensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Choeropsis liberiensis in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.