rhinocerot

plural rhinocerots · archaic plural rhinocerotes · alternative rhinocerote

1. archaicThe rhinoceros.First known use 14th c.

   The Indians have a kind of Crocodile in Ganges, which hath a horn growing out of his nose like a Rhinocerot

   1896, HW Seager, editor, Natural History in Shakespeare’s Time, Kessinger, published 2004, page 76

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   Antoninus Pius the Emperor, did give many gifts unto the people, amongst which were both Tigers and Rhinocerots, (saith Iulius Capitalinus in his life).

   1551, Edward Topsell, The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes, translation of Historiae Animalium de Quadrupedibus viviparis by Conrad Gesner, published 1607

   Beyond that Country of Birds, is another wilde and mountainous, where abide many creatures much worse than those Birds, Elephants, Rhinocerotes, Lions, Wild-swine, Buffals, and Wild-kine.

   1625, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, J MacLehose, published 1905, page 63

   I lately observ'd, that all the teeth of a Rhinocerot, which grow on either side of its mouth, are join'd into one large bone, the weight of one of which I found to be neer eleven pound Haverdupois.

   1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XL