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Definition of “white rhino”

white rhino (waɪt ˈraɪnəʊ) 

Definitions

noun

  1. (informal) = white rhinoceros

white rhinoceros (waɪt raɪˈnɒsərəs)  or white rhino (informal)

Definitions

noun

  1. an African rhinoceros, Diceros simus, having two horns on the nose

Example Sentences Including 'white rhino'

Also in 1900, and from that same locality, Captain A. St. H. Gibbons brought back a white rhino skull.
Shuker, Karl & Durrell, Gerald Lost Ark
The remote and lawless rainforest park, covering 500 000 hectares of northeast Congo, is the last wild refuge of the northern white rhino.
New Scientist (1998)
The same fate befell the park's herd of white rhino and their keepers.
Glasgow Herald (2001)
We were standing on a huge, spongy white rhino midden (white rhino all do it on one spot).
SA Star (2004)
ZULU the white rhino has stunned zoo bosses -- because he knows when the weather is going to clear up.
Sun, News of the World (2000)

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