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White rhinoceros

noun

Large light-grey African rhinoceros having two horns; endangered; sometimes placed in genus Diceros. Synonyms: Ceratotherium simum, Diceros simus.

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... suggested that the snake was altogether too unprecedented and impossible. Accordingly, also at his suggestion, a crocodile was substituted. Scarcely was this change effected, however, when Mr. R. T. Coryndon, the slayer of almost the last white rhinoceros, published in the African Review of February 17, 1894, an account of a huge and terrific serpent said to exist in the Dichwi district of Mashonaland, that in many particulars resembled the snake of the story, whose prototype, by the way, ...

— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard

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Words linked to "White rhinoceros" : rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, rhino, Diceros simus