Rhinoceros
[raɪ'nɒs(ə)rəs] or [raɪ'nɑsərəs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout.
錄入:纳塔莉亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidae, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.
校對:拉弗尔斯
解釋/意思:
n. a genus forming a family of ungulate mammals found in Africa and India having a very thick skin lying in enormous folds clumsy and with one or two horns on the nose:—pl. Rhinoc′eroses.—adjs. Rhinocē′rial Rhinocē′rical.—ns. Rhinoc′eros-auk a bird belonging to the family Alcid; Rhinoc′eros-bee′tle a beetle of the genus Dynastes having a large up-curved horn on the head; Rhinoc′eros-bird a beefeater the hornbill; Rhinoc′eros-tick the tick which infests rhinoceroses; Rhinoc′erot (obs.) a rhinoceros.—adjs. Rhinocerot′ic; Rhinocerot′iform shaped like a rhinoceros.
錄入:萨姆纳
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream that you see a rhinoceros, foretells you will have a great loss threatening you, and that you will have secret troubles. To kill one, shows that you will bravely overcome obstacles.
希勒尔錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- He has the constitution of a rhinoceros, the digestion of an ostrich, and the concentration of an oyster. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- This is well shown in the drawings given by Owen of the leg bones of the horse, ox, and rhinoceros. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It contains fragments of Miocene mastodon and rhinoceros teeth. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the same gravel-pits were found teeth of rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and the leg-bone of a deer with marks upon it that may be cuts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To revenge on poor Donne his silly spite at Yorkshire is something like crushing a gnat for attacking the hide of a rhinoceros. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- An arctic fauna, musk ox, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lemming, ushers in the Pleistocene. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There is, for instance, an early rhinoceros, _Titanotherium_, with a brain not one tenth the size of that of the existing rhinoceros. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At first there were hippopotami, rhinoceroses, mammoths, and elephants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
手打:谢莉