rhino
- noun
- /ˈraɪnoʊ/
- Informal
- Literature and pamphlets depicting the black rhino are spread out on the table.
- white rhino
- black rhino
- rhino horn
The third scene was a female rhino, and it was a video, not a picture this time.
- The third scene was a female rhino, and it was a video, not a picture this time.
- Why did we humans, you know, drive the West African black rhino extinct?
- But but then like rhino stalking seems like those people that hunt them for their horns.
- That rhino. That rhino is hands down my hero,
- There's the the white rhino, the northern white rhino is is just become declared extinct.
- So those are all related, which is pretty wild to think about rhinos, tapirs and say zebras or horses.
Examples
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The northern African white rhino is on the verge of birth.
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The mother rhino is giving birth in the safety of the grasslands.
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The mother rhino is giving birth.
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For the first time in my life, I saw a rhino with a baby in the wild.
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Because this was legal, rhino farmers had an incentive to breed rhinos and protect them.
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Martin Brooks, chairman of IUCN's African Rhino Specialist Group, wants to maintain conservation efforts.
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In recent years, the Black Rhino has become extinct, or is nearing extinction, in 12 African countries.
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Ujong Kulon, where an estimated 50 rhinos live, has the only viable population of this species.
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For the first time in my life, I saw a rhino with a baby in the wild.
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The zoo is working hard to protect the endangered rhino species from poachers.
Synonyms
A large heavy animal that eats plants and has thick skin and one or two horns on its nose
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word rhino is a short form of rhinoceros, from Greek parts rhinos 'nose' and keras 'horn'. So a rhino is literally a 'nose-horn', which fits the large animal with one or two horns on its nose.