RHINOCEROS
\ɹa͡ɪnˈɒsəɹəs], \ɹaɪnˈɒsəɹəs], \ɹ_aɪ_n_ˈɒ_s_ə_ɹ_ə_s]\
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A large, thick-skinned, herb-eating animal of tropical Asia and Africa, having one or two horns on the snout.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A very large animal allied to the elephant, having a very thick skin, and one or two horns on the nose.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Procollagen Proline Dioxygenase
- mixed-function oxygenase that catalyzes hydroxylation prolyl-glycyl-containing-peptide, usually in protocollagen, hydroxyprolylglycyl-peptide. The enzyme utilizes molecular oxygen with a concomitant oxidative decarboxylation of 2-oxoglutarate to succinate. EC 1.14.11.2.