Rhinoceros
[raɪ'nɒs(ə)rəs] or [raɪ'nɑsərəs]
Definition
(noun.) massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout.
Checker: Natalia--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Raffles
Definition
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.
Checker: Sumner
Unserious Contents or Definition
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.
Checked by Hillel
Examples
- He has the constitution of a rhinoceros, the digestion of an ostrich, and the concentration of an oyster. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This is well shown in the drawings given by Owen of the leg bones of the horse, ox, and rhinoceros. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It contains fragments of Miocene mastodon and rhinoceros teeth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To revenge on poor Donne his silly spite at Yorkshire is something like crushing a gnat for attacking the hide of a rhinoceros. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- An arctic fauna, musk ox, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lemming, ushers in the Pleistocene. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is, for instance, an early rhinoceros, _Titanotherium_, with a brain not one tenth the size of that of the existing rhinoceros. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At first there were hippopotami, rhinoceroses, mammoths, and elephants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Shelley