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Definition of Ceratotherium
1. Noun. African genus.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Rhinocerotidae, Rhinoceros Family, Rhinocerotidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceratotherium
Literary usage of Ceratotherium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"ceratotherium. Head elongate, produced behind ; forehead flat; nose very broad,
square at the end; upper lip bovine, rounded. Horns two, very unequal, ..."
2. 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, ..."
3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1876)
"As the termination of such a term as ceratotherium, by common consent of zoologists,
has hitherto been restricted to extinct generi, its application to li ..."
4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1867)
"ceratotherium. Head elongate, produced behind ; forehead flat ; nose very broad,
square at the end ; upper lip bovine, rounded, Horns two, very unequal, ..."
5. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookedited by Charles Morris edited by Charles Morris (1921)
"... the white rhinoceros (R. or ceratotherium £imu*i. and the Koba- oba or
long-horned, white rhinoceros (A. or ('. ..."
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