baluchithere

baluchithere
/beuh looh"cheuh thear'/, n.
a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.
[1910-15; < NL Baluchitherium genus name, equiv. to Baluchi- (see BALUCHISTAN) + -therium -THERE]

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