rhinoceros Definition

any of a family (Rhinocerotidae) of large heavyset herbivorous perissodactyl mammals of Africa and Asia that have one or two upright keratinous horns on the snout and thick gray to brown skin with little hair

any of various large chiefly tropical scarab beetles (subfamily Dynastinae) having projecting horns on thorax and head

a rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) of sub-Saharan Africa having a prehensile upper lip that protrudes in the middle —called also black rhino

indian rhinoceros

a large, endangered Asian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) that has a single horn and deeply folded, grayish-brown skin and that is now reduced to several small populations in India and Nepal —called also greater one-horned rhinoceros

a small, endangered, one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) of southeastern Asia that has deeply folded skin and is now reduced to a single, small population in Java —called also lesser one-horned rhinoceros

javan rhinoceros

either of two Asian rhinoceroses (genus Rhinoceros) having a single horn:

indian rhinoceros

javan rhinoceros

a rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) of southern and central Africa that is distinguished from the black rhinoceros especially by larger size and by a squared upper lip lacking a protrusion