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Wait until you find out the depth of creativity contained in the naming of the "rhinoceros".
Little harder than uni and corn but still good
To be fair, it's a little easier if you're in the medical field, because rhino- is actually used as a medical prefix
An ear, nose, throat doctor's full title is actually Otorhinolaryngology
Means you can make up your own animals with horns in silly places and in arbitrary numbering:
Tesseracephaceros, for example. I'm no etymologist but I think he's got four horns on his head.
In Dutch they are actually called nosehorns
And hippopotamus!