keitloa

American  

[kahyt-loh-uh, keyt-] / ˈkaɪt loʊ ə, ˈkeɪt- /

noun

1. a variety of the black rhinoceros having the posterior horn equal to or longer than the anterior horn.

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keitloa British  

/ ˈkeɪt-, ˈkaɪtləʊə /

noun

1. a southern African variety of the black two-horned rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis

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Etymology

Origin of keitloa

1830–40; said to be < Setswana

Example Sentences

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keitloa

No keitloa followed in pursuit; and soon another agreeable fact came under his notice—he perceived that his horse had also gone back the same way.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne

This time he was not followed by the keitloa.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne

There is only one species of this animal in Abyssinia; this is the two-horned black rhinoceros, known in South Africa as the keitloa.

From The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Now, as the one that had attacked Hendrik was a black rhinoceros, and was not the borelé—for this was the kind they had encountered while hunting the gnoo—it must be the keitloa.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne

The moment the keitloa felt the fierce rider on its back, it made a desperate rush outward from the rocks, and shaking its huge body like an earthquake, it cast the lion to the plain.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne