Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Large African animal, for short ", 5 letters:
rhino

Alternative clues for the word rhino

Word definitions for rhino in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rhino \Rhi*no\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Gold and silver, or money. [Cant] --W. Wagstaffe. As long as the rhino lasted. --Marryat.

Usage examples of rhino.

Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.

The big blobby thing practising golf swings with the Jabberwock is a Krell, and that rhino over there is Rataxis.

The hideous beast, resembling a stilt-legged rhino with a ceratopsian neck frill and wicked glowing eyes, minced in and out of the bodies without stepping on a single one.

A type of large rhino called an elasmotherium roamed across northern Eurasia.

Fifteen steps up from the second level, in one smooth motion, Jarry put the ordinary down, mounted it holding immobile the pedals with his feet, swung the Rhino Express off his shoulder, and rode the last crashing steps down, holding back, then pedaling furiously as his giant wheel hit the floor.

It caught a rhino in its vicious mouth, and the pachyderm disappeared.

It was the remains of a nashorn, a rhino ironclad and Remade into a veldt tank.

The vision twinkled, was clear for a moment, even clearer than the beast before him: there were those rhinos massed with one another like Robles and Muffy, blinking and seizing in the light.

Fulla, meanwhile, had created a zombified rhino and a small, hissing hydra.

When they drew nearer, Jondalar dashed ahead, trying to outdistance the last straggler -- a young rhino, not full grown and having a little trouble keeping up.

A sighting of the enormous, unpredictable rhinos, with two horns, the front one long and low-slung, and two coats of reddish fur, a soft downy underwool and an outer layer of long guard hair, always brought exclamations of wonder.

We passed birds, bears, apes, monkeys, ungulates, the terrarium house, the rhinos, the elephants, the giraffes.

With this rifle he had killed leopards, lions, rhinos, buffalos, elephants by the hundred-and men, many men, in the days of the Rhodesian bush war.

On the other side of the road grass alternated with managed forest, grass patrolled by falstaffian rhinos, who marked their territory with clouds of secretions expelled, pumped even, from their rear ends.

That indicated to Laussedat that humans had been contemporary with the fossil rhino in a geologically remote time.