English

Alternative spellings
rhinocerote

Etymology
Back-formation from Latin rhinocerotes#Latin|rhinocerotes, plural of rhinoceros#Latin|rhinoceros.

Pronunciation
IPA|/raɪ�n�s�r�t/

Noun
en-noun|pl2=rhinocerotes

1. rare The rhinoceros.

#:* 1607: Antoninus Pius the Emperor, did give many gifts unto the people, amongst which were both Tigers and Rhinocerots, (saith Iulius Capitalinus in his life). The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes, Edward Topsell tr. Conrad Gesner, Historiae Animalium de Quadrupedibus viviparis (1551), in The Book of Naturalists, William Beebe ed. (Knopf, 1988, p. 32)
#:* 1625: 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. � Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus (J MacLehose? 1905, p.63)
#:* 1896: �The Indians have a kind of Crocodile in Ganges, which hath a horn growing out of his nose like a Rhinocerot�. � Natural History in Shakespeare�s Time, ed. HW Seager (Kessinger 2004, p.76)

References
Shorter OED.

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