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rhinocerotes

Syllables: rhi·no·ce·rotesUK/ɹaɪˈnɒ.sə.ɹəʊts/US/ɹaɪˈnɑː.sə.ɹoʊts/

rhinocerotes is the plural of rhinoceros.

rhinocerotes is the plural of rhinocerot.

rhinocerotes is the plural of rhinocerote.

Meaning of rhinoceros

Noun

rhinoceros (plural rhinoceros or rhinoceroses or (uncommon) rhinocerosses or (nonstandard) rhinoceri or (nonstandard) rhinoceroi or (now rare) rhinocerotes)

  1. Any large herbivorous ungulate mammal native to Africa and Asia of the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.
    • Herein therefore to draw up our determinations beside the several pieces of Scripture mentioning this Animal (which some may well contend to be only meant of the Rhinoceros) we are so far from denying there is any Unicorn at all, that we affirme there are many kinds thereof. In the number of...1658, Thomas Brown, “Of Unicorns Horn”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents And commonly Presumed Truths. The Fourth Edition, page 203
    Synonyms:
    rhino, rhinocerotid
  2. An ungulate mammal of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, including the hornless Paraceratherium.

Meaning of rhinocerot

Noun

rhinocerot (plural rhinocerots or (archaic) rhinocerotes)

  1. (archaic) The rhinoceros.
    • Antoninus Pius the Emperor, did give many gifts unto the people, amongst which were both Tigers and Rhinocerots, (saith Iulius Capitalinus in his life).1551, Edward Topsell, The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes, translation of Historiae Animalium de Quadrupedibus viviparis by Conrad Gesner, published 1607

Synonyms of rhinocerotes

Origin of rhinocerotes

Borrowed from Latin rhīnocerōtēs.

Questions about rhinocerotes

What is rhinocerotes the plural of?
Rhinocerotes is the plural of rhinoceros.
How do you pronounce rhinocerotes?
Rhinocerotes is pronounced /ɹaɪˈnɒ.sə.ɹəʊts/ (UK).

Words near rhinocerotes in the dictionary

  1. rhinocerosin
  2. rhinoceroslike
  3. rhinocerosses
  4. rhinocerot
  5. rhinocerote
  6. rhinocerotes
  7. rhinocerothid
  8. rhinocerotic
  9. rhinocerotid
  10. rhinocerotids
  11. rhinocerotiform

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rhinocerotes (page history and authors); rhinoceros (page history and authors); rhinocerot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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