CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ceratotherium simum mean? 

• CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM (noun)
  The noun CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM has 1 sense:

1. large light-grey African rhinoceros having two horns; endangered; sometimes placed in genus Diceros

  Familiarity information: CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large light-grey African rhinoceros having two horns; endangered; sometimes placed in genus Diceros

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ceratotherium simum; Diceros simus; white rhinoceros

Hypernyms ("Ceratotherium simum" is a kind of...):

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