Meanings
nounrhinoceros beetle (plural rhinoceros beetles)
plural rhinoceros beetles
- Any of various tropical beetles, of the subfamily Dynastinae, having horns on the head and thorax; a pest on coconuts.
Origin
Named from its horn, reminiscent of the rhinoceros.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan escarabat rinoceront
- escarabat rinoceronttropical beetle
Finnish sarvikuonokas
- sarvikuonokastropical beetle
French scarabée rhinocéros
- scarabée rhinocérostropical beetle
German Nashornkäfer, Riesenkäfer
- Nashornkäfertropical beetle
- Riesenkäfertropical beetle
Japanese カブトムシ
- カブトムシ (kabutomushi)tropical beetle
Korean 장수풍뎅이
- 장수풍뎅이 (jangsupungdeng'i)tropical beetle
Latin dynastīna
- dynastīnatropical beetle
Portuguese besouro-rinoceronte
- besouro-rinocerontetropical beetle
Russian жук-носоро́г
- жук-носоро́г (žuk-nosoróg)tropical beetle
Turkish gergedan böceği
- gergedan böceğitropical beetle
Welsh chwilen ryncorniog
- chwilen ryncorniogtropical beetle
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