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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.

The rhinoceros. [Obs.] Purchas.

ls characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).

extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

e Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.

e eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.

ing an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc.

A black, two-horned, African rhinoceros (Atelodus keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one, or even longer.

The African white two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus simus).

Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros.

als distinguished for the thickness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is now considered an artificial group.

gulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla.

Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros, or his horn. Tatler.

A rhinoceros. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros. [R.]

A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.

A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.

An African two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus, or Rhinoceros, simus); -- called also chukuru, and white rhinoceros.

in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.] -- White rhinoceros. (Zoöl.) (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Indicus). See Rhinoceros. (b) The umhofo. -- White ribbon, the distinctive badge of certain organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral purit…