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baluchithere

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ba⋅lu⋅chi⋅there

  [buh-loo-chuh-theer]
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–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; < NL Baluchitherium genus name, equiv. to Baluchi- (see Baluchistan ) + -therium -there
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ba·lu·chi·there   (bə-lōō'chĭ-thîr')   
n.  An indricothere.

[New Latin Baluchithērium, former genus name : Baluchi(stan) + Greek thērion, wild beast; see treacle.]
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