rhinoceros
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"I've got three favourites, the rhinoceros, tigers and red pandas," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 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
An iconic species of megafauna, the woolly rhinoceros had thick skin and long fur, and it once roamed the mammoth step of northern and central Eurasia, before its extinction around 10,000 years ago.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024
Most scientists believed the woolly rhinoceros succumbed to a warming climate at the end of the Pleistocene era about 12,000 years ago.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 2, 2024
Every statue wore a tall white cap and every marble nose was tipped with a horn like that of a rhinoceros.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing rhinoceros
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