WHITE RHINOCEROS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white rhinoceros mean? 

• WHITE RHINOCEROS (noun)
  The noun WHITE RHINOCEROS has 1 sense:

1. large light-grey African rhinoceros having two horns; endangered; sometimes placed in genus Diceros

  Familiarity information: WHITE RHINOCEROS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE RHINOCEROS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large light-grey African rhinoceros having two horns; endangered; sometimes placed in genus Diceros

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ceratotherium simum; Diceros simus; white rhinoceros

Hypernyms ("white rhinoceros" is a kind of...):

rhino; rhinoceros (massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout)

 Context examples 

He glanced up at the white rhinoceros.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)