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RHINOCEROS

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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 snout

Synonyms:

rhino; rhinoceros

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("rhinoceros" 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 "rhinoceros"):

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 ("rhinoceros" is a member of...):

family Rhinocerotidae; rhinoceros family; Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceroses)

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