HIPPO REGIUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria

Synonyms:

Hippo; Hippo Regius

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Hippo Regius" is a part of...):

Algeria; Algerie; Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria (a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s)

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