hippus

¹

[ hip-uhs ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

1. spasmodic contraction of the pupil of the eye.

-hippus

²

1. variant of hippo- as final element of compounds:

   eohippus.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hippus¹

1675–85; < New Latin < Greek híppos horse, complaint of the eye

Origin of hippus²

< Latin < Greek -hippos

Example Sentences

Hippus, hip′us, n. clonic spasm of the iris.

From Project Gutenberg

But, as will be noticed, the pedigree given by Professor Huxley consists almost entirely of American animals, to which category belong all whose names terminate in -hippus, and these cannot with any reason be assigned as progenitors to the European horse.

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Hippus, the Tyrian, is said to have first devised caracks, and onerary vessels of prodigious bulk for traffic or offence.

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"The children in the street are talking of it," cried Hippus.

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And to-day, at noon, as I entered the inn, Pinkus came running toward me, and said, 'Schmeie,' said he, 'if you want to speak to Hippus, you'll have to go into the water; he has been found in the water.'

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