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Wombat vs Rhino - What's the difference?

wombat | rhino |

As nouns the difference between wombat and rhino

is that wombat is any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family vombatidae , mainly found in southern and eastern australia while rhino is short form of rhinoceros or rhino can be (slang|archaic) money.

wombat

English

(wikipedia wombat)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae , mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.

    • 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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