indian rhinoceros in English

noun
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a large one-horned rhinoceros with prominent skin folds and a prehensile upper lip, found in northeastern India and Nepal.
The biblical unicorn may have been a wild ox, but the great Indian rhinoceros is similar to a unicorn: it has a single horn, usually about 53 cm long, and is among the rarest mammals in the world today.

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1. On 20 May 1515, an Indian rhinoceros arrived in Lisbon from the Far East.