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Nashorn, pronounced "nass-horn," is German for "rhinoceros," and it's one of the animal names for a German tank destroyer used in World War II. It's also the name of the replacement -- introduced with Java 8 -- for the old, slow Rhino JavaScript engine. Both Rhino and Nashorn are implementations of the JavaScript language written to run on the Java virtual machine, or JVM.

Obligatory rant: JavaScript may have Java as part of its name, but the two languages are very different in spirit and design, as well as in their implementations. Nevertheless, one way of implementing a JavaScript interpreter is to compile JavaScript into Java byte codes, which is what Rhino and Nashorn were designed to do.

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