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rhinocerot Now rare.|raɪˈnɒsərɒt|
Also 7 rin-; 6–7 -ote.
[ad. L. rhīnocerōt-, -cerōs (see prec.); med.L. also rinocerota.]
= rhinoceros.
† rhinocerot's nose = ‘rhinoceros nose’ (see prec. 3).
1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 44 Tygers, Panthers, Rhinocerots and such wild..beasts. a1637B. Jonson Epigr. i. xxviii, Don Surly..speakes to men with a Rhinocerotes nose. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 28 We saw the whole Skin of a young Rhinocerot stuft. 1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. Introd. p. xiv, Towards the Gulf of Bengal, Elephants, Rhinocerots, Lions. 1905Athenæum 22 Apr. 489/1 Suicidally-minded rhinocerots.
¶ The form rhinocerotes, orig. representing L. rhīnocerōtēs, Gr. ῥῑνοκέρωτες, serves as a pl. for both rhinoceros and (c 1550 to 1700) rhinocerot.
c1554in Hakluyt Voy. (1599) II. ii. 20 [332] The beastes called Rhinocerotes. 1601Holland Pliny I. 548 The Rhinocerotes whet their horns against the rockes. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage v. v. 400 In Bengala are found great numbers of Abadas or Rhinocerotes. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. lvii. (1737) 237 Lions, Rhinocerotes. 1845Kitto Cycl. Bibl. Lit. II. 607/1 In general structure so much lighter than other rhinocerotes. 1869Gray Catal. Carniv. Mammalia Brit. Mus. 301 Camper..pointed out that there were two Asiatic one-horned Rhinocerotes with upper incisors.
†b. rhinocerot bird = rhinoceros bird (a).
a1672Willughby Ornith. (1678) 127 The horned Indian Raven or Topau, called the Rhinocerot Bird. |