one-horned rhinoceros
noun
variants
or one-horned rhino
: either of two Asian rhinoceroses (genus Rhinoceros) having a single horn:
b
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The tiger is believed to be have come from the neighboring Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, home to tigers, elephants, bears, and the world's largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses.
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Zoe Sottile and Manveena Suri, CNN, 19 July 2019
One male and two female calves one-horned rhinoceros, who were rescued during monsoon floods over the past two years from a famed wildlife preserve in India’s northeast, were on Friday transported to a local zoo for breeding.
—Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2017
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Zoe Sottile and Manveena Suri, CNN, 19 July 2019
One male and two female calves one-horned rhinoceros, who were rescued during monsoon floods over the past two years from a famed wildlife preserve in India’s northeast, were on Friday transported to a local zoo for breeding.
—Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2017
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