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GENUS RHINOCEROS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Rhinocerotidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Rhinoceros" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Rhinoceros"):

Indian rhinoceros; Rhinoceros unicornis (having one horn)

Rhinoceros antiquitatis; woolly rhinoceros (extinct thick-haired species of Arctic regions)

Holonyms ("genus Rhinoceros" is a member of...):

family Rhinocerotidae; rhinoceros family; Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceroses)

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