mohohu, noun

Forms:
mahoohoo, mohohooShow more Also mahoohoo, mohohoo, mohoohoo, mohuhu, monooho, muchocho, muchucho.
Origin:
Setswana mogohu.
obs.
The white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum of the Rhinocerotidae.
1835 A. Smith Diary (1940) II. 107The Baquana say that two kinds [of rhinoceros] are only in this country. The black, which they call muchli and the white mohohoo.
1846 R. Moffat Missionary Labours 120The lion flies before them like a cat; the mohohu, the largest species, has been known even to kill the elephant, by thrusting the horn into its ribs.
1849 A. Smith Illust. of Zoo. of S. Afr.: Mammalia Pl.19Localities abounding in grass are therefore the haunts of the Mohoohoo.
1850 R.G.G. Cumming Hunter’s Life I. 77With considerable difficulty we separated the horn of the muchocho from the skin by means of a long sharp knife.
1866 Chambers’s Encycl. VIII. 236The White R[hinoceros]..or Muchuco, or Monooho, is the largest of the well-ascertained African species.
1871 J. Mackenzie Ten Yrs N. of Orange River 300The meat from the ribs of the rhinoceros is considered best; and it is said the flesh of the mohohu or white rhinoceros is very good.
[1875 W.H. Drummond Large Game & Nat. Hist. of S. & S.-E. Afr. 84Rhinoceros simus, the mohohu of the Bechuanas.]
1883 J. Mackenzie Day-Dawn in Dark Places 189It is said the flesh of the mohuhu, or white rhinoceros is very good.
[1894 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. II. 480The individuals exhibiting this form being known to the Bechuanas by the name of mohohu.]
The white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum of the Rhinocerotidae.
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