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Animal with horn, I gathered (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rhino

'animal' is the definition.
(short for rhinoceros)

'with horn i gathered' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'gathered' indicates anagramming the letters (the letters are gathered into a new order).
'horn' put next to 'i' is 'horni'.
'horni' is an anagram of 'RHINO'.

(Other definitions for rhino that I've seen before include "Ready" , "Horny creature" , "Powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate, informally" , "Moola" , "The necessary" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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