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Hinkson, Katherine (Irish writer)
Irish poet and novelist whose works are dominated by the combined influences of Catholicism and Irish patriotism....
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Hinkspiel (German game)
...then hops on one foot into that space and kicks the marker back across the base line and out of the diagram, continuing this procedure for each space in sequence. In Hinkspiel, a German variation, a player who completes the sequence turns away from the diagram and tosses the marker over her shoulder. The space in which it lands is her......
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Hinman, Mary Wood (American scholar and teacher)
Another American scholar and teacher, Mary Wood Hinman, worked in New York and Chicago to train teachers and encourage folk dancing among local ethnic organizations. After traveling to several countries to learn folk dances, she developed a teacher-training school in Chicago that prepared women to teach folk dances in schools, parks, and settlement houses. (Teaching at a Chicago private school......
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Hinn Island (island, Norway)
island, in the Norwegian Sea, northern Norway. Forming part of the Vesterålen group and with an area of 849 square miles (2,198 square km), it is Norway’s second largest island after Spitsbergen (principal island of Svalbard). It is separated from the mainland by the narrow Tjeld Strait. Irregularly shaped and ...
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hinney (mammal)
the hybrid offspring of a male ass (jackass, or jack) and a female horse (mare). The less-frequent cross between a female ass and a male horse results in a hinny, or hinney, which is smaller than a mule. Mules were beasts of burden in Asia Minor at least 3,000 years ago and are still used today in many parts of the world because of their......
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Hinnøya (island, Norway)
island, in the Norwegian Sea, northern Norway. Forming part of the Vesterålen group and with an area of 849 square miles (2,198 square km), it is Norway’s second largest island after Spitsbergen (principal island of Svalbard). It is separated from the mainland by the narrow Tjeld Strait. Irregularly shaped and ...
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hinny (mammal)
the hybrid offspring of a male ass (jackass, or jack) and a female horse (mare). The less-frequent cross between a female ass and a male horse results in a hinny, or hinney, which is smaller than a mule. Mules were beasts of burden in Asia Minor at least 3,000 years ago and are still used today in many parts of the world because of their......
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Hino (Japan)
city, eastern Tokyo to (metropolis), east-central Honshu, Japan. It is located on the Tama River on the railway linking Tachikawa and Hachiōji. Hino was a post town and ferry station during the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867). The city is now part of the Keihin Industrial Region, producing automobiles, electrical machinery, and precision ins...
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Hinode (satellite)
a Japanese-U.S.-U.K. satellite that carried a 50-cm (20-inch) solar optical telescope, a 34-cm (13-inch) X-ray telescope, and an extreme ultraviolet imaging spectrometer to observe changes in intense solar magnetic fields that were associated with solar flares and coronal mass ejections. It was launched ...
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Hinojosa, Rolando (American author)
...Horton Foote of Wharton, who set dozens of plays in a fictional Texas town; Elmer Kelton, a novelist whose work treats the modern oil and ranching industries as well as the state’s frontier era; and Rolando Hinojosa of Mercedes, who has written extensively about Mexican American and Chicano culture in Texas....
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hinoki cypress (plant)
The hinoki cypress (C. obtusa), a bright-green tree 25 to 35 metres (80 to 115 feet) high, with reddish-brown bark, is one of Japan’s most valuable timber trees. Its wood is used for construction, furniture, and interior work. Many varieties are cultivated for decoration and are used for bonsai and dwarfing....
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Hinrichs, Gustavus (American professor)
...A windstorm that travels in a straight line and is caused by the gust front (the boundary between descending cold air and warm air at the surface) of an approaching thunderstorm is called a derecho. Gustavus Hinrichs, a physics professor from the University of Iowa and founder of the Iowa Weather Service, applied the term ......
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Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman (British chemist)
British chemist who worked on reaction rates and reaction mechanisms, particularly that of the combination of hydrogen and oxygen to form water, one of the most fundamental combining reactions in chemistry. For this work he shared the 1956 Nobel Prize...
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Hinsley, Arthur (British cardinal)
English Roman Catholic cardinal and fifth archbishop of Westminster who was an outspoken opponent of the fascist powers during World War II....
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Hinterer Forest (region, Germany)
...sea level. Meadow, isolated farmsteads, and small hamlets dominate the landscape; only the higher and steeper slopes are still wooded. Northeast of the Pfahl is the Hinterer Forest, a higher and almost continuously forested mountain region where human settlement is confined to a few longitudinal valleys. Its highest peaks include the Grosser Arber, with an......
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Hinterer Wald (region, Germany)
...sea level. Meadow, isolated farmsteads, and small hamlets dominate the landscape; only the higher and steeper slopes are still wooded. Northeast of the Pfahl is the Hinterer Forest, a higher and almost continuously forested mountain region where human settlement is confined to a few longitudinal valleys. Its highest peaks include the Grosser Arber, with an......
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hinterland (geography)
tributary region, either rural or urban or both, that is closely linked economically with a nearby town or city....
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Hinterpommern (region, Poland)
Eastern Pomerania was held by the Teutonic Knights from 1308 to 1454, when it was reconquered by Poland. In 1772 it was annexed by Prussia and made into the province of West Prussia. A small part of it was restored to Poland after World War I; the remainder, together with part of Pomerania, became Polish in 1945. The German population of......
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Hinterrhein (stream, Switzerland)
...in two headstreams high in the Swiss Alps. The Vorderrhein emerges from Lake Toma at 7,690 feet, near the Oberalp Pass in the Central Alps, and then flows eastward past Disentis to be joined by the Hinterrhein from the south at Reichenau above Chur. (The Hinterrhein rises about five miles west of San Bernardino Pass, near the......
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Hinthada (Myanmar)
town, southwestern Myanmar (Burma). Hinthada is situated along the Irrawaddy River opposite Tharrawaw, with which it is linked by ferry, at a point considered to be the head of the Irrawaddy’s delta. It is a port for the rice and tobacco grown in the surrounding agricultural area and is connected by road and rail with Bassein and Yangon (Rangoon). It is also the site of a...
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Hinton (West Virginia, United States)
city, seat (1871) of Summers county, southeastern West Virginia, U.S., on the New River, near the mouth of the Greenbrier River. Laid out in 1831, it became a railway maintenance facility and rail-shipping point in 1871 with the arrival of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. The early 20th ...
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Hinton, Martin A. C. (British hoaxer)
...found in the trunk, the British paleontologists Brian Gardiner and Andrew Currant found that they had been stained in the exact same way as the Piltdown fossils. The trunk apparently had belonged to Martin A.C. Hinton, who became keeper of zoology at the British Museum in 1936. Hinton, who in 1912 was working as a volunteer at the museum, may have treated and planted the Piltdown bones as a hoa...
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Hinton, Milt (American musician)
African American jazz musician, a highly versatile bassist who came of age in the swing era and became one of the favourite bassists of post-World War II jazz....
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Hinton, Milton John (American musician)
African American jazz musician, a highly versatile bassist who came of age in the swing era and became one of the favourite bassists of post-World War II jazz....
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Hinton of Bankside, Christopher Hinton, Baron (British engineer)
engineer who was a leading figure in the development of the nuclear energy industry in Britain; he supervised the construction of Calder Hall, the world’s first large-scale nuclear power station (opened in 1956)....
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Hinton, William Howard (American agronomist)
American agronomist (b. Feb. 2, 1919, Chicago, Ill.—d. May 15, 2004, Concord, Mass.), authored Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village (1966) and Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village (1983), two studies that chronicled the impact of the Maoist revolution on a peasant village. Hinton spent six years in China documenting the turning over of t...
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Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details (work by Eastlake)
Eastlake’s influential Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details (1868) was in its 6th edition in the United States by 1881 and in its 4th in London by 1887. His Lectures on Decorative Art and Art Workmanship (1876) was followed by the progressively published series Notes on the Principal......
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Hiodon alosoides (fish)
North American freshwater fish, a species of mooneye....
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Hiodontidae (fish)
North American freshwater fish of the family Hiodontidae. The mooneye is a spirited catch but is not greatly valued as food. Mooneyes are herring-like in appearance, with sharp teeth, large eyes, and deeply forked tail fins. Those of the species Hiodon tergisus are bright silvery fish and may be about 42.5 centimetres (17 inches) long. The goldeye, H. (sometimes called Amp...
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Hiodontiformes (fish order)
...body. Osteoglossomorphs are unique among fishes in that they use their tongue as the opposing surface for the teeth when they bite into food. They are divided into two orders, Osteoglossiformes and Hiodontiformes. Osteoglossiforms are a group of morphologically and biologically diverse forms primarily found in freshwater environments in Africa, Asia, ......
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hip (anatomy)
in anatomy, the joint between the thighbone (femur) and the pelvis; also the area adjacent to this joint. The hip joint is a ball-and-socket joint; the round head of the femur rests in a cavity (the acetabulum) that allows free rotation of the limb. Amphibians and rept...
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HIP (metallurgy)
...of the ceramic. Furthermore, shape forming and densification can often be accomplished in a single step. Two popular pressure-assisted sintering methods are followed—hot pressing and hot isostatic pressing (HIP)....
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hip dysplasia (medical disorder)
in dogs, abnormal development of the hip joint on one or both sides of the body, occurring primarily in medium and large breeds. Its clinical signs include decreased ability to endure exercise, lameness in the hind limbs, reluctance to climb stairs, and pain coincident with hip movement. The abnormality of the ...
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hip joint (anatomy)
in anatomy, the joint between the thighbone (femur) and the pelvis; also the area adjacent to this joint. The hip joint is a ball-and-socket joint; the round head of the femur rests in a cavity (the acetabulum) that allows free rotation of the limb. Amphibians and rept...
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hip roof (architecture)
roof that slopes upward from all sides of a structure, having no vertical ends. The hip is the external angle at which adjacent sloping sides of a roof meet. The degree of such an angle is referred to as the hip bevel. The triangular sloping surface formed by hips that meet at a roof’s ridge is called a hip end. A pyramidal hipped roof...
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hip-girdle (anatomy)
in human anatomy, basin-shaped complex of bones that connects the trunk and legs, supports and balances the trunk, and contains and supports the intestines, urinary bladder, and internal sex organs. The pelvic girdle consists of paired hipbones, connected in front at the...
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hip-hop (cultural movement)
cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and ’90s; also, the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement’s most lasting and influential art form....
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Hipernik (metal alloy)
...that are laminated to form transformer cores. The proportion of nickel may range from 35 to 90 percent, depending on the properties desired, and is about 78 percent for low-power transformers. Hipernik (trademark of the Westinghouse Electric Company) is an alloy of 50 percent nickel useful for high-power transformers. Heating Permalloy......
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Hippa talpoida (crab)
crab of the Atlantic beaches from New England to Mexico. It is so named from its digging mole-fashion in sand. The shell is about 3.75 centimetres (1.5 inches) long, somewhat egg-shaped and yellowish white with purplish markings. It lives on beaches in the intertidal zone...
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“Hipparchikos” (work by Xenophon)
...neither sophists nor politicians can match). De re equestri (“On Horsemanship”) deals with various aspects of horse ownership and riding, and Cavalry Commander is a somewhat unsystematic (but serious) discussion of how to improve the Athenian cavalry corps. Also Athenocentric is Ways and Means, a plan to......
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Hipparchos (Greek astronomer)
Greek astronomer and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the advancement of astronomy as a mathematical science and to the foundations of trigonometry. Although he is commonly ranked among the greatest scientists of antiquity, very little is known about his life, and only one of his many writings is still in existence. Knowledge of the rest of his work relies on second-hand reports...
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Hipparchus (ruler of Athens)
...advances made by the younger brother of the ruling tyrant Hippias toward his young friend Harmodius. The two friends, with a small band of accomplices, planned to kill both Hippias and his brother Hipparchus during the armed procession at the Panathenaic festival (514). The plot miscarried. They succeeded in killing only Hipparchus. Harmodius was slain on the spot; Aristogiton was captured and....
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Hipparchus (Greek astronomer)
Greek astronomer and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the advancement of astronomy as a mathematical science and to the foundations of trigonometry. Although he is commonly ranked among the greatest scientists of antiquity, very little is known about his life, and only one of his many writings is still in existence. Knowledge of the rest of his work relies on second-hand reports...
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Hipparcos (artificial satellite)
Earth-orbiting satellite launched by the European Space Agency in 1989 that over the next four years measured the distances to more than 100,000 stars by direct triangulation using observations of parallax from either side of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. It was named after the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who drew up an accur...
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Hippasus of Metapontum (Greek philosopher)
philosopher, early follower of Pythagoras, coupled by Aristotle with Heraclitus in identifying fire as the first element in the universe. Some traditions say that he was drowned after revealing a mathematical secret of the Pythagorean brotherhood....
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Hippeastrum (plant genus)
...belong to the family, such as those of the genera Haemanthus (Cape tulip, or blood lily), Alstroemeria (Peruvian lily), and Hippeastrum; the hippeastrums, grown for their large, showy flowers, are commonly known as amaryllis. An ornamental Eurasian plant known as winter daffodil (......
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hipped roof (architecture)
roof that slopes upward from all sides of a structure, having no vertical ends. The hip is the external angle at which adjacent sloping sides of a roof meet. The degree of such an angle is referred to as the hip bevel. The triangular sloping surface formed by hips that meet at a roof’s ridge is called a hip end. A pyramidal hipped roof...
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“Hippeis” (play by Aristophanes)
This play shows how little Aristophanes was affected by the prosecution he had incurred for Babylonians. Knights (424 bc; Greek Hippeis) consists of a violent attack on the same demagogue, Cleon, who is depicted as the favourite slave of the stupid and irascible Demos until he is, at last, ousted from his position of influence and authority by.....
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Hippel, Theodor Gottlieb von (German writer)
German writer of the late Enlightenment and a disciple of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. Although he was a minor writer of his time, his works enjoyed an unusually long-lasting popularity and can now be seen to have foreshadowed the novels of Jean Paul (...
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Hipper, Franz von (German admiral)
...force made a raid into the Helgoland Bight and sank three cruisers and one destroyer without loss. A few months later he intercepted the German squadron under Admiral von Hipper in its third attempt on the English coastal towns. In a running fight, the rear German battle cruiser “Blücher” was sunk by British gunfire. This action was known as the......
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Hippias (tyrant of Athens)
tyrant of Athens from 528/527 to 510 bc. He was a patron of poets and craftsmen, and under his rule Athens prospered. After the assassination of his brother Hipparchus (514), however, Hippias was driven to repressive measures. An attempt by nobles in exile to force their way back failed, but in 510 the Spartans under Cleomenes I invaded Attica, besieged the tyrant...
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Hippias Major (work by Plato)
...the Clitophon, the title character objects that Socrates has awakened his wish for knowledge of virtue but has failed to help him reach his goal. The Hippias Major takes up the question “What is the beautiful (the fine)?” Widely agreed to be spurious are Axiochus, ......
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Hippias Minor (work by Plato)
...suffer wrong than to do it. Callicles praises the man of natural ability who ignores conventional justice; true justice, according to Callicles, is this person’s triumph. In the Hippias Minor, discussion of Homer by a visiting Sophist leads to an examination by Socrates, which the Sophist fails, on such questions as whether a just person who does wrong on purp...
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Hippias of Elis (Greek philosopher)
Sophist philosopher who contributed significantly to mathematics by discovering the quadratrix, a special curve he may have used to trisect an angle....
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hippie (subculture)
member, during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream American life. The movement originated on college campuses in the United States, although it spread to other countries, including Canada and Britain. The name derived from “hip,” a term applied to the ...
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Hippius, Zinaida Nikolayevna (Russian poet)
Russian Symbolist poet who wrote in a metaphysical vein....
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Hippo (ancient North African ports)
either of two ancient ports on the coast of North Africa....
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Hippo (Greek philosopher)
philosopher who revived the belief of the 6th-century philosopher Thales that the world originated from water or moisture. He held that fire first originated from water and that these two, operating as contrary forces, produced the physical cosmos. But he was more especially concerned with medicine and physiology, advancing the theory that disease and death were due to the dryin...
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hippo (mammal species)
amphibious African ungulate mammal, the second largest land animal (after the elephant)....
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Hippo Diarrhytus (Tunisia)
town in northern Tunisia. It lies along the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of a channel that links Lake Bizerte with the sea....
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Hippo Regius (Algeria)
town and Mediterranean port, northeastern Algeria. It lies near the mouth of the Wadi Seybouse, close to the Tunisian border. Its location on a natural harbour (Annaba Gulf) between Capes Garde and Rosa early attracted the Phoenicians, probably in the 12th century bc. It passed to the Romans ...
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Hippo Zarytus (Tunisia)
town in northern Tunisia. It lies along the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of a channel that links Lake Bizerte with the sea....
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Hippoboscidae (insect)
any insect of the parasitic family Hippoboscidae (order Diptera) characterized by piercing mouthparts used to suck blood from warm-blooded animals. Genera occur in both winged and wingless forms. The winged louse flies, parasitic on birds, are usually dark brown in colour, flat in shape, and leathery in appearance....
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Hippocampus (fish)
any of about 36 species of marine fishes allied to pipefishes in the family Syngnathidae (order Gasterosteiformes). Sea horses are found in shallow coastal waters in latitudes from about 52° N to 45° S. Their habitats include coral reefs, mangroves, sea grass beds, and estuaries...
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hippocampus (brain)
region of the brain that is associated primarily with memory. The name hippocampus is derived from the Greek hippokampus (hippos, meaning “horse,” and kampos, meaning “sea monster”), since the structure’s shape resembles that of a sea horse. Th...
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Hippocrates (Greek physician)
ancient Greek physician who lived during Greece’s Classical period and is traditionally regarded as the father of medicine. It is difficult to isolate the facts of Hippocrates’ life from the later tales told about him or to assess his medicine accurately in the face of centuries of reverence ...
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Hippocrates of Chios (Greek mathematician)
Greek geometer who compiled the first known work on the elements of geometry nearly a century before Euclid. Although the work is no longer extant, Euclid may have used it as a model for his Elements....
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Hippocratic Collection (works attributed to Hippocrates)
...as returns to true Hippocratic medicine. New scientific methodology argued for a return to observation and study of nature, abandoning bookish authority. The simple and direct writings of the Hippocratic Collection read well as sample empirical texts that eschewed dogma. By the late 19th century, Galen was irrelevant to medical practice, and general knowledge of Hippocratic medical......
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Hippocratic oath (ethical code)
ethical code attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, adopted as a guide to conduct by the medical profession throughout the ages and still used in the graduation ceremonies of many medical schools. Although little is known of the life of Hippocrates—or, indeed, if he was the only practitioner of the tim...
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Hippocratic wreath (baldness)
...a characteristic recession of the hairline at the front or thinning of the crown hair and proceeding, in extreme cases, until only a thin rim of hair remains at the sides and back of the head (the “Hippocratic wreath”)....
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Hippodamia (Greek mythology)
...mortal life because his father had abused the favour of heaven by feeding mere mortals with nectar and ambrosia, of which only gods partook. Later, according to Pindar, Pelops strove for the hand of Hippodamia, daughter of King Oenomaus of Pisa in Elis. Oenomaus, who had an incestuous love for his daughter, had previously killed 13 suitors. He challenged Pelops to a chariot chase, with......
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Hippodamia convergens (insect)
One coccinellid, the convergent ladybug (Hippodamia convergens), lives in valley regions of California, where the eggs hatch in March or April and develop into adults one month later. In early summer they migrate to the mountains, particularly to the Sierra Nevada, where they may lay eggs if food is abundant and the weather warm.......
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Hippodamus of Miletus (Greek architect)
Its fortunes soon revived, however, and the Milesians set about rebuilding their city on a new grid plan of the type invented in this period by Hippodamus of Miletus. In 412 the city sided with Sparta against Athens; before 350 Mausolus of Caria ruled it, and it fell to Alexander in 334 after a siege. Hellenistic rulers who competed for influence at Miletus included the Seleucid ......
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hippodrome (architecture)
ancient Greek stadium designed for horse racing and especially chariot racing. Its Roman counterpart was called a circus and is best represented by the Circus Maximus. The typical hippodrome was dug into a hillside and the excavated...
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Hippoglossus hippoglossus (fish)
Flatfishes vary considerably in size. Small species may reach a length of only about 10 cm (4 inches); the largest, the Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus), may reach a length and weight of about 2 metres (7 feet) and 325 kg (720 pounds). Many species, such as the halibuts and turbot, are highly valued as food....
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hippogriff (legendary animal)
a legendary animal that has the foreparts of a winged griffin and the body and hindquarters of a horse. The creature was invented by Ludovico Ariosto in his Orlando furioso and was based on a proverbial phrase about crossing a griffin with a horse that was used to signify an impossibility or incongruity. ...
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Hippolyta (fictional character)
Theseus, duke of Athens, has conquered Hippolyta, the Amazon queen, and is about to wed her. Meanwhile, two lovers, Hermia and Lysander, seek refuge in the forest near Athens when Hermia’s father demands that she marry Demetrius. Hoping to win Demetrius’s favour, Helena tells him......
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Hippolyte (Greek mythology)
...Stymphalian marshes; (7) the capture of the mad bull that terrorized the island of Crete; (8) the capture of the man-eating mares of King Diomedes of the Bistones; (9) the taking of the girdle of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons; (10) the seizing of the cattle of the three-bodied giant Geryon, who ruled the island Erytheia (meaning Red) in the far west; (11) the bringing back of the golden......
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Hippolyte et Aricie (opera by Rameau)
...had been successfully set to music by Rameau’s rival Michel de Montéclair in 1732, was to become Rameau’s librettist for his first and in many ways finest opera, Hippolyte et Aricie. It was first performed in the spring of 1733, at La Pouplinière’s house, then, in the autumn, at the Opéra, and in 1734 it was performed at court....
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Hippolytus (play by Euripides)
In Euripides’ tragedy Hippolytus, he was son of Theseus, king of Athens, and the Amazon Hippolyte. Theseus’ queen, Phaedra, fell in love with Hippolytus. When Phaedra’s passion was revealed to him, he reacted with such revulsion that she killed herself, leaving a note accusing Hippolytus of having tried to rape her. Theseus, refusing to believe Hippolytus’......
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Hippolytus (Greek mythology)
minor divinity in Greek religion. At Athens he was associated with Aphrodite, the goddess of love; at Troezen, girls just before marrying dedicated to him a lock of their hair. To the Greeks his name might suggest that he was destroyed by horses....
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Hippolytus, Canons of Saint (Christian literature)
a collection of 38 canons (church regulations) preserved in an Arabic translation. The original text was Greek and written in Egypt; the Arabic version may rest on a Coptic translation....
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Hippolytus of Rome, Saint (antipope)
Christian martyr who was also the first antipope (217/218–235)....
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Hippomane mancinella (plant)
(Hippomane mancinella), tree of the genus Hippomane, of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), that is famous for its poisonous fruits. The manchineel is native mostly to sandy beaches of the Caribbean and ...
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Hippomenes (Greek mythology)
In one race Hippomenes (or Milanion) was given three of the golden apples of the Hesperides (q.v.) by the goddess Aphrodite; when he dropped them, Atalanta stopped to pick them up and so lost the race. Their son was Parthenopaeus, who later was one of the Seven who fought against Thebes after the death of King Oedipus. Atalanta and her husband, overcome with passion, made love in a......
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Hippomorpha (mammal suborder)
...absent. Testes inguinal, occasionally scrotal; mammary glands inguinal, with 2 teats; uterus bicornuate. Fifteen living species, but more than 200 fossil forms.Suborder HippomorphaSuperfamily EquoideaDentition complete, upper molars with 6 tubercles, the 2 external ones united to form an ectol...
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Hippon (Greek philosopher)
philosopher who revived the belief of the 6th-century philosopher Thales that the world originated from water or moisture. He held that fire first originated from water and that these two, operating as contrary forces, produced the physical cosmos. But he was more especially concerned with medicine and physiology, advancing the theory that disease and death were due to the dryin...
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Hipponax (Greek poet)
...flight to Persia. But after 454 Ephesus appears as a regular tributary of Athens. Great Ephesians up to this time had been Callinus, the earliest Greek elegist (mid-7th century bc), the satirist Hipponax, and the famous philosopher Heracleitus, one of the Basilids....
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Hipponax (Greek philosopher)
philosopher who revived the belief of the 6th-century philosopher Thales that the world originated from water or moisture. He held that fire first originated from water and that these two, operating as contrary forces, produced the physical cosmos. But he was more especially concerned with medicine and physiology, advancing the theory that disease and death were due to the dryin...
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Hipponion (Italy)
town, Calabria regione, southern Italy. It lies near the Gulf of Sant’Eufemia. It originated as the ancient Greek town of Hipponion and was praised in the 1st century bc by the Roman statesman and author Cicero. There is a museum of Greek antiquities, and ruined Greek walls can be seen outside the town. Rebuilt in the 13th century after destruction by...
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Hipponium (Italy)
town, Calabria regione, southern Italy. It lies near the Gulf of Sant’Eufemia. It originated as the ancient Greek town of Hipponion and was praised in the 1st century bc by the Roman statesman and author Cicero. There is a museum of Greek antiquities, and ruined Greek walls can be seen outside the town. Rebuilt in the 13th century after destruction by...
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Hippophae rhamnoides (shrub)
(Hippophae rhamnoides, family Elaeagnaceae), willowlike shrub growing to about 2.5 m (about 8 feet) high with narrow leaves that are silvery on the underside and globose, orange-yellow fruits about 8 mm (13 inch) in diameter. It is common on sand dunes along the eastern and southeas...
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hippopotamus (mammal species)
amphibious African ungulate mammal, the second largest land animal (after the elephant)....
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Hippopotamus (mammal genus)
amphibious African ungulate mammal, the second largest land animal (after the elephant).......
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Hippopotamus amphibius (mammal species)
amphibious African ungulate mammal, the second largest land animal (after the elephant)....
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Hipposideridae (mammal family)
...roosts selected, especially caves, but tree hollows, buildings, and culverts as well. Generally colonial, nontouching. Usually feed on flying insects. Family Hipposideridae (Old World leaf-nosed bats)81 small to large species in 9 genera, some ranging from Old World tropics to temperate regions. C...
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Hipposiderinae (mammal subfamily)
subfamily of insect-eating bats, suborder Microchiroptera, family Rhinolophidae, with 9 genera and approximately 66 species. Known as roundleaf bats, hipposiderine bats are characterized by a round nose leaf (fleshy appendage on the muzzle), consisting of an anterior horseshoe-shaped leaf, various accessory leaves, and an upright transverse leaf. They are found in the tropics from Africa through A...
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hipposiderine bat (mammal subfamily)
subfamily of insect-eating bats, suborder Microchiroptera, family Rhinolophidae, with 9 genera and approximately 66 species. Known as roundleaf bats, hipposiderine bats are characterized by a round nose leaf (fleshy appendage on the muzzle), consisting of an anterior horseshoe-shaped leaf, various accessory leaves, and an upright transverse leaf. They are found in the tropics from Africa through A...
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Hipposideros commersoni (bat)
subfamily of insect-eating bats, suborder Microchiroptera, family Rhinolophidae, with 9 genera and approximately 66 species. Known as roundleaf bats, hipposiderine bats are characterized by a round nose leaf (fleshy appendage on the muzzle), consisting of an anterior horseshoe-shaped leaf, various accessory leaves, and an upright transverse leaf. They are found in the tropics from Africa through A...
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Hippotragini (mammal tribe)
...Antilopini (includes gazelles and the springbok, gerenuk,and blackbuck)Tribe Hippotragini (horse antelopes, including roan antelopes, sableantelopes, oryxes, and addaxes)Tribe Reduncini......
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