Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com
Jump to:
  • hippus
    hippus
    noun
    spasmodic contraction of the pupil of the eye.
  • -hippus
    -hippus
    variant of hippo- as final element of compounds.

hippus

1 American  
[hip-uhs] / ˈhɪp əs /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

  1. spasmodic contraction of the pupil of the eye.

-hippus 2 American  

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

    eohippus.

Etymology

Origin of hippus1

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

Origin of -hippus2

< Latin < Greek -hippos

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.