| 单词 | black rhinoceros |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack rhinoceros black rhinoceros n. a two-horned rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, of the eastern and central areas of Africa, having a pointed, prehensile upper lip.Not really distinguishable by means of colour from the much larger white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum. ΚΠ 1838 Penny Mag. 17 Mar. 101/1 In the South African Museum, the three species are—rhinoceros Africanus, or the black rhinoceros of the Cape colonists; rhinoceros simus, or the white rhinoceros; and rhinoceros ketloa. 1886 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) xiv. 246 There is only one species of this animal in Abyssinia; this is the two-horned black rhinoceros. 1958 R. Garnett tr. B. Heuvelmans On Track of Unknown Animals ii. 53 The white rhinoceros is the same greyish hue as the black rhinoceros. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 407/1 The black rhinoceros lingers tenuously in widely scattered pockets of East, Central, and South Africa. < as lemmas |
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