black rhinoceros
noun
: a rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) of sub-Saharan Africa having a prehensile upper lip that protrudes in the middle
called also black rhino
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The case's turning point came after authorities intercepted a package with a black rhinoceros horn that the defendants had sold to a buyer in Manhattan, the State's Attorney said. 
Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022 Dalia, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s latest addition to its Eastern black rhinoceros family, made her debut Wednesday morning, David Petkiewicz reports. Mike Rose, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022 Port Lympne houses a number of rare and endangered species such as Siberian tigers and has Britain’s largest breeding herd of black rhinoceros. Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 June 2022 King, an 8-year-old black rhinoceros, arrived Sept. 10 from Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo and is already making himself at home in Southwest Portland, his handlers say. oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2021 International demand for black rhinoceros horn has seen the animals killed relentlessly for decades in countries such as Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Helen Santoro, Scientific American, 28 Dec. 2020 The world now has one more black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2019 More than 600 elephants share the grasslands and floodplains with lions, leopards, and threatened black rhinoceroses. Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019 Last month, Kip Ole Polos arrived in New York for a month of fund-raising on behalf of his tribe, the Il Ngwesi Maasai, which is trying to reintroduce the black rhinoceros on its lands, in northern Kenya. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2019 See More
Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022 Dalia, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s latest addition to its Eastern black rhinoceros family, made her debut Wednesday morning, David Petkiewicz reports. Mike Rose, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022 Port Lympne houses a number of rare and endangered species such as Siberian tigers and has Britain’s largest breeding herd of black rhinoceros. Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 June 2022 King, an 8-year-old black rhinoceros, arrived Sept. 10 from Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo and is already making himself at home in Southwest Portland, his handlers say. oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2021 International demand for black rhinoceros horn has seen the animals killed relentlessly for decades in countries such as Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Helen Santoro, Scientific American, 28 Dec. 2020 The world now has one more black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2019 More than 600 elephants share the grasslands and floodplains with lions, leopards, and threatened black rhinoceroses. Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019 Last month, Kip Ole Polos arrived in New York for a month of fund-raising on behalf of his tribe, the Il Ngwesi Maasai, which is trying to reintroduce the black rhinoceros on its lands, in northern Kenya. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2019 See More Word History
First Known Use
1835, in the meaning defined above