RHINO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhino mean? 

• RHINO (noun)
  The noun RHINO 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: RHINO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHINO (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("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)

 Context examples 

A fungal toxin isolated from Arachniotus aureus with activity against RNA viruses such as poliovirus, coxsackie virus, and rhino- and parainfluenza viruses.

(Aranotin, NCI Thesaurus)

And while there is a concerted effort to protect endangered species such as pandas, tigers and rhinos, other organisms are being overlooked.

(Nearly Half the Planet's Species Could Be Wiped Out by the End of This Century, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers identified an almost complete set of proteins, a proteome, in the dental enamel of the rhino and the genetic information discovered is one million years older than the oldest DNA sequenced from a 700,000-year-old horse.

(‘Game-changing’ research could solve evolution mysteries, University of Cambridge)

In addition to the fox, the team also discovered extinct species of a wooly rhino (Coelodonta thibetana), three-toed horse (Hipparion), Tibetan bharal (Pseudois, known as blue sheep), chiru (Pantholops, known as Tibetan antelope), snow leopard (Uncia), badger (Meles), and 23 other mammals.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)