Definition of Diceros

1. Noun. Most common species in Africa.

Exact synonyms: Genus Diceros
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Rhinocerotidae, Rhinoceros Family, Rhinocerotidae
Member holonyms: Black Rhinoceros, Diceros Bicornis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diceros

Diapsida
Diaptomus
Dias
Diaspididae
Diaspora
Diatomophyceae
Diaz
Dibothriocephalus
Dibothriocephalus latus
Dibranchia
Dicamptodon ensatus
Dicamptodontidae
Dicentra canadensis
Dicentra cucullaria
Dicentra spectabilis
Diceros (current term)
Diceros bicornis
Diceros simus
Dichelobacter nodosus
Dichondra micrantha

Literary usage of Diceros

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Study of the Spermatogenesis of Twenty-two Speci of the Membracidæ by Alice M. Boring (1907)
"Ceresa diceros The shape and size of this species is about the same as in Ceresa bubalus, but the coloring is different, being brown and white, ..."

2. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"This type of rhinoceros has recently been erected into a special genus, Diceros, because of its marked differences from the Asiatic rhinoceroses. ..."

3. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"The genus Diceros, of which the black rhinoceros is the type, differs almost as radically from the other African genus, Ceratotherium, or white rhinoceros, ..."

4. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"Quite distinct from these animals is the woolly rhinoceros (Diceros antiquitatis, ... but really belongs to the modern African group of Diceros, ..."

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