Rhinocerot

Pronunciation

• IPA: /raɪˈnÉ’sÉ™rÉ’t/

Alternative forms

• rhinocerote

Origin

Back-formation from Latin rhinocerotes, plural of rhinoceros.

Full definition of rhinocerot

Noun

1. (rare) The rhinoceros.
• 1551, Edward Topsell, The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes, Antoninus Pius the Emperor, did give many gifts unto the people, amongst which were both Tigers and Rhinocerots, (saith Iulius Capitalinus in his life).
• 1625, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, 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.
• 1896, Natural History in Shakespeare’s Time, The Indians have a kind of Crocodile in Ganges, which hath a horn growing out of his nose like a Rhinocerot