baluchithere

[ buh-loo-chuh-theer ]

noun
  1. 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 of baluchithere

1
1910–15; <New Latin Baluchitherium genus name, equivalent to Baluchi- (see Baluchistan) + -therium-there

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