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Unicorn vs Rhino - What's the difference?

unicorn | rhino |

As nouns the difference between unicorn and rhino

is that unicorn is a mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead while rhino is short form of rhinoceros.

unicorn

English

(wikipedia unicorn)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rft-sense)A mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
  • A heraldic representation of such a beast used as a charge or as a supporter; as in the arms of Great Britain and of Scotland.
  • (historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew ); a reem or wild ox.
  • *
    • God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn : he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
  • Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax.
  • The larva of a unicorn moth.
  • The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
  • A howitzer.

    • Hyponyms

    * pegacorn, unipeg, unisus

    Meronyms

    *

    Holonyms

    *

    Derived terms

    * Chinese unicorn * Invisible Pink Unicorn * unicorn bait * unicorn root * unicornlike

    See also

    * alicorn * bicorne * monoceros * reem * tricorn, tricorne

    rhino

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortened form of (rhinoceros).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Short form of rhinoceros.

    • Etymology 2

    Unknown

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang, archaic) money
  • * 1835 , (Frederick Marryat), The Pacha of Many Tales
    • There I fell in with Betsy, and as she proved a regular out and outer, I spliced her, and a famous wedding we had of it, as long as the rhino lasted.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops
  • *:--Here you are, says Alf, chucking out the rhino . Talking about hanging, I'll show you something you never saw
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