rhinocerotes

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UK/ɹaɪˈnɒ.sə.ɹəʊts/US/ɹaɪˈnɑː.sə.ɹoʊts/

A form of rhinoceros — Any large herbivorous ungulate mammal native to Africa and Asia of the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.

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OriginLatin rhīnocerōtēs →
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Meanings

noun
  1. archaicpluralplural of rhinoceros

    Wandering about among the trees or crouching in the long and feathered grass were all varieties of game, from rhinocerotes down.

    1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Speculations”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 114
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    A vast number of lions were poisoned by contaminating the carcasses of their prey with toxic cattle dip; a population of at least a hundred rhinocerotes was attacked with spears, leaving a single one alive; hundreds of wildebeest and zebras have been found rotting.

    1992, Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, Academy Editions, →ISBN, page 19

    Another seal from Mohenjodaro shows us the male God horned and three faced sitting in yogic posture and still another seal gives his representations as surrounded by beasts, the elephant, the tiger, the rhinocerotes and the buffalo with a couple of deer at his feet.

    1993, Social Scientist, page 35

    The rhinoceros’ horn stands upright. Through a belief in sympathetic magic, it is thought to make men’s parts stand upright, and male anxiety about their erection has come close to wiping out the population of rhinocerotes.

    2008, Yvan Nadeau, Erotica for Caesar Augustus: A Study of the Love-Poetry of Horace, Carmina, Books I to III (Collection Latomus; 310), Latomus, →ISBN, page 404

    In any case, your five rhinocerotes won’t be appearing, nor will we stalely fellow them, we will be busy accrediting my hordes.

    2016, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman, volume 2, Laughing/Ouch/Cube/Publications, →ISBN, page 743

    Synonyms: rhinoceri, rhinoceroi, rhinoceros, rhinoceroses, rhinocerosses

  2. archaicpluralplural of rhinocerot (“(now rare) a rhinoceros”)

    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, page 63; republished Glasgow, 1905

    Synonyms: rhinocerots

  3. obsoletepluralplural of rhinocerote (“a rhinoceros”)

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Latinrhīnocerōtēs
  2. Latinrhīnocerōtēs
  3. Englishrhinocerotes

Borrowed from Latin rhīnocerōtēs.

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