baluchithere

[buh-loo-chuh-theer]

ba·lu·chi·there

[buh-loo-chuh-theer]
noun
a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.

Origin:
1910–15; < Neo-Latin Baluchitherium genus name, equivalent to Baluchi- (see Baluchistan) + -therium -there
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