rhinoceros : Idioms & Phrases

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black rhinoceros

  • noun African rhino; in danger of extinction
    Diceros bicornis.
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genus rhinoceros

  • noun type genus of the Rhinocerotidae
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indian rhinoceros

  • noun having one horn
    Indian rhinoceros.
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rhinoceros antiquitatis

  • noun extinct thick-haired species of Arctic regions
    Rhinoceros antiquitatis.
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Rhinoceros auk

  • (Zoöl.), an auk of the North Pacific (Cerorhina monocrata) which has a deciduous horn on top of the bill.
Webster 1913

Rhinoceros beetle

  • noun any of various large chiefly tropical beetles having horns on the head; pest on coconuts
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  • (Zoöl.), a very large beetle of the genus Dynastes, having a horn on the head.
Webster 1913

Rhinoceros bird

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) A large hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), native of the East Indies. It has a large hollow hornlike process on the bill. Called also rhinoceros hornbill . See Hornbill. (b) An African beefeater (Buphaga Africana). It alights on the back of the rhinoceros in search of parasitic insects.
Webster 1913

rhinoceros family

  • noun rhinoceroses
    Rhinocerotidae; family Rhinocerotidae.
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rhinoceros unicornis

  • noun having one horn
    Indian rhinoceros.
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White rhinoceros

  • noun large light-grey African rhinoceros having two horns; endangered; sometimes placed in genus Diceros
    Ceratotherium simum; Diceros simus.
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  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Indicus). See Rhinoceros. (b) The umhofo.
Webster 1913

Woolly rhinoceros

  • noun extinct thick-haired species of Arctic regions
    Rhinoceros antiquitatis.
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  • (Paleon.), an extinct rhinoceros (Rhinoceros tichorhinus) which inhabited the arctic regions, and was covered with a dense coat of woolly hair. It has been found frozen in the ice of Siberia, with the flesh and hair well preserved.
Webster 1913