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megarrhine, a. Zool.|ˈmɛgəraɪn| Also megarhine. [ad. mod.L. megarrhīnus, f. Gr. µέγα-ς great + ῥῑν-, ῥίν, ῥίς nose.] ‘Great-nosed’; the distinctive epithet of an extinct species of rhinoceros.
1865Dawkins in Nat. Hist. Rev. July 403 All the three species [of Rhinoceros]—the megarhine, leptorhine, and tichorhine, are found together at Crayford and Ilford. 1895Lydekker Brit. Mammalia 304 Both the Leptorhine (R. leptorhinus) and Megarhine (R. megarhinus) Rhinoceroses..differ essentially from the woolly kind. |