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rhinoceros

[rahy-nos-er-uhs] / raɪˈnɒs ər əs /




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“It’s also given me the skin of a rhinoceros, which comes in handy when you’re the CEO of Apple,” he wrote in the essay.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Airport authorities and police seized six pieces of rhinoceros horn and around 12 kilograms of unidentified meat used to conceal them inside a polystyrene icebox.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Johan Marais spots a rhinoceros from a helicopter and shoots it with a tranquilizer dart.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2025

It was the ninth Banksy to appear in as many days in London and follows images of a goat, elephants, monkeys, a wolf, pelicans, a cat, piranhas and a rhinoceros.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2024

“They used chopsticks made from rhinoceros horn, and they ate ducks’ tongues and monkeys’ lips.”

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston




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