Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidæ, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.
Egypt. Solinus: The Rhinoceros a native of India; is the color of boxwood; it erects its single nasal horn when fighting against elephants; being the same length but shorter in the leg it naturally attacks the belly which it realizes is the only vulnerable spot.
massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
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The rhinoceros (, commonly called rhino for brevity; plural can be either rhinoceros or rhinoceroses) ("rhinoceros" is derived from the Greek words rhino, meaning nose, and ceros, meaning horn; hence "horn-nosed") is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. All five species are native to Africa, the Middle East, and southern Asia. Most species of rhino are endangered.
The members of the genus Rhinoceros are the one-horned rhinoceroses. The genus contains two species, the Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) and the Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus). The Javan Rhinoceros is one of the most endangered large mammals in the world with only 60 indiviuals surviving.