Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common two-horned African rhinoceros, R. bicornis.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] The genus of two-horned rhinoceroses. See
Rhinocerotidæ . - noun The genus of star-nosed moles: synonymous with Condylura.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The borele.
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- noun obsolete A kind of
rhinoceros ; theborele .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ῥινός (rhinos) (genitive of ῥίς (rhis, "nose")) + ἀστήρ (astēr, "star").
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