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Tapir vs Rhinoceros - What's the difference?

tapir | rhinoceros |

As nouns the difference between tapir and rhinoceros

is that tapir is tapir while rhinoceros is rhinoceros.

tapir

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any one the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family .

    • Hyponyms

    * Baird's tapir, * Brazilian tapir, * Malayan tapir, * mountain tapir, * † * † * † * † * †

    External links

    * ("tapir" on Wikipedia) * (Tapirus) * (Tapirus)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    rhinoceros

    English

    (wikipedia rhinoceros)

    Noun

  • Any of several large herbivorous pachyderms native to Africa and Asia of the five extant species in the three extant genera in the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1658 , chapter = Of Unicorns Horn , title = Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents And commonly Presumed Truths. The Fourth Edition , first = Thomas , last = Brown , authorlink = Thomas Brown , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=lpZNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA203 , page = 203 , passage = Herein therefore to draw up our determinations beside the several pieces of Scripture mentioning this Animal (which some may well contend to be only meant of the Rhinoceros ) we are so far from denying there is any Unicorn at all, that we affirme there are many kinds thereof. In the number of Quadrapedes we will concede no less then five; that is the Indian'' Oxe, ''Indian'' Ass, Rhinoceros, the Oryx, and that which is more eminently termed ''Monoceros'', or ''Unicornis .}}

    Hyponyms

    * black rhinoceros * Indian rhinoceros * Javan rhinoceros * lesser one-horned rhinoceros * Sumatran rhinoceros * white rhinoceros * woolly rhinoceros

    See also

    * abada * crash English nouns with irregular plurals ----