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    RHINO

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snoutplay

    Synonyms:

    rhino; rhinoceros

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("rhino" is a kind of...):

    odd-toed ungulate; perissodactyl; perissodactyl mammal (placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhino"):

    Indian rhinoceros; Rhinoceros unicornis (having one horn)

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

    Ceratotherium simum; Diceros simus; white rhinoceros (large light-grey African rhinoceros having two horns; endangered; sometimes placed in genus Diceros)

    black rhinoceros; Diceros bicornis (African rhino; in danger of extinction)

    Holonyms ("rhino" is a member of...):

    family Rhinocerotidae; rhinoceros family; Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceroses)

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