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

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(1) The soldiers allegedly used the stolen money to buy items as diverse as cameras and rhinoceros horns, the officials said.(2) But I remember she said there was a hippopotamus and a rhinoceros .(3) Without their commanding horn the rhinoceros present a forlorn image.(4) Another unusual mammal found at Chilga is the arsinoithere, which looks like a larger version of a modern rhinoceros , but actually evolved independently of rhinos, said Rasmussen.(5) You've got to have a hide as thick as a rhinoceros to carry on and pretend nothing has happened.(6) The skin of a rhinoceros , the composure of a Hindu sacred cow and the patience of a saint - just three qualities you'd need to do Robert Ogier's job.(7) A large light-blue horn stood out of the middle of his forehead, and it was shaped like a rhinoceros ' horn.(8) He asked for a u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510highly intelligent workaholic with skin like a rhinoceros and the ability to work 24 hours a day while juggling 20 balls in the air.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb(9) When the vessel was first discovered last year, it contained the leg bone of a tapir, a medium-size mammal related to both the horse and the rhinoceros .(10) During the Pleistocene, herds of giant wombats the size of a rhinoceros roamed the plains of southern Australia.(11) Dartford Museum in Market Street, houses some remains of animals found in the area including woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses .(12) The Ceratopsian dinosaurs (Triceratops, etc) were the rhinoceroses of the dinosaur world, their formidable horns at least appear to be ample protection against even the largest and fiercest carnivores.(13) O'Connell-Rodwell and her colleagues have also begun to study the nuances of elephant signals to distinguish them from the footsteps of rhinoceroses or lions.(14) At one point Bill suggested that the reason rhinoceroses ' horns have been ground up for years and used as an ancient form of Viagra was, well, the shape of the rhino's horn.(15) Rabinowitz hoped to find remaining pockets of additional charismatic fauna - elephants, tigers, and rhinoceroses - and to set up a biological reserve to protect them, but he soon learned that these large mammals had disappeared.(16) The alteration and fragmentation of existing habitats ensures that any future radiation of mammals, for instance, will not include large forms such as rhinoceroses , apes and big cats.