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- English Word Hippocampus Definition A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune.
- English Word Hippocampus Definition A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.
- English Word Hippocampus Definition A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.
- English Word Hippocentaur Definition Same as Centaur.
- English Word Hippocras Definition A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.
- English Word Hippocrates Definition A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C.
- English Word Hippocratic Definition Of or pertaining to Hippocrates, or to his teachings.
- English Word Hippocratism Definition The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates.
- English Word Hippocrene Definition A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration.
- English Word Hippocrepian Definition One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema.
- English Word Hippocrepiform Definition Shaped like a horseshoe.
- English Word Hippodame Definition A fabulous sea monster.
- English Word Hippodrome Definition A place set apart for equestrian and chariot races.
- English Word Hippodrome Definition An arena for equestrian performances; a circus.
- English Word Hippogriff Definition A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.
- English Word Hippolith Definition A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of the horse.
- English Word Hippopathology Definition The science of veterinary medicine; the pathology of the horse.
- English Word Hippophagi Definition Eaters of horseflesh.
- English Word Hippophagism Definition Hippophagy.
- English Word Hippophagist Definition One who eats horseflesh.