RHINOCEROS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhinoceros mean? 

• RHINOCEROS (noun)
  The noun RHINOCEROS has 1 sense:

1. massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout

  Familiarity information: RHINOCEROS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHINOCEROS (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

rhino; rhinoceros

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)