keitloan.
/ˈkeɪtləʊə/ A species of South African rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros Keitloa), having two horns of nearly equal length.
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black rhino1900
1838–47 Sir A. Smith in Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia (U.K.S., 1849) 40 The keitloa browses on shrubs and the slender branches of brushwood, using the upper lip as an organ of prehension.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 472/2 The Keitloa is of a very savage disposition.
1867 J. E. Gray in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1025 Rhinaster Keitloa, the Keitloa or Ketloa.
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