rhinoceros

en-noun

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

rhinoceros (plural)
rhinoceroses (plural)
rhinocerosses (plural uncommon)
rhinoceri (nonstandard plural)
rhinoceroi (nonstandard plural)
rhinocerotes (archaic plural)

/ɹɑɪˈnɔs.ə.ɹəs/

From Latin rhīnocerōs, from Ancient Greek ῥῑνόκερως (rhīnókerōs, “nose-horned”), composed of ῥῑ́ς, ῥῑνός (rhī́s, rhīnós, “nose, of (the) nose”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”).

Rhinos

cf. also the homophones: RINO, RINOs, Republican(s) In Name Only

Rhinoceros Party English Wikipedia has an article on:Rhinoceros Party

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 Quadrapedes we will concede no less then five; that is the Indian Oxe, Indian Ass, Rhinoceros, the Oryx, and that which is more eminently termed Monoceros, or Unicornis.

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:

Any of several large herbivorous ungulates native to Africa and Asia of the five extant species in the three extant genera in the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.

(paleontology) A member of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, including hornless members of the extinct genus Paraceratherium.


upeygan

Diceros bicornis
Diceros bicornis#Translingual

(zoology) A borele or two-horned black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis).


rhinocerot

en-noun

rhinocerot (plural rhinocerots or (archaic) rhinocerotes)

rhinocerots (plural)
rhinocerotes (archaic plural)

/ɹaɪˈnɒsəɹɒt/

From the inflected stem of Latin rhinoceros. Compare Middle French rhinocerote, obsolete Italian rinocerote.

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:

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.

1625, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, J MacLehose, published 1905, page 63:

I lately observ'd, that all the teeth of a Rhinocerot, which grow on either side of its mouth, are join'd into one large bone, the weight of one of which I found to be neer eleven pound Haverdupois.

1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XL:

The Indians have a kind of Crocodile in Ganges, which hath a horn growing out of his nose like a Rhinocerot

1896, HW Seager, editor, Natural History in Shakespeare’s Time, Kessinger, published 2004, page 76:


black rhinoceros

black rhinoceros (plural black rhinoceros or black rhinoceroses)

black rhinoceros (plural)
black rhinoceroses (plural)

A rhinoceros, of species Diceros bicornis, in the family Rhinocerotidae.


Indian rhinoceros

Indian rhinoceros (plural Indian rhinoceros or Indian rhinoceroses or Indian rhinocerotes)

Indian rhinoceros (plural)
Indian rhinoceroses (plural)
Indian rhinocerotes (plural)

Rhinoceros unicornis
Rhinoceros unicornis#Translingual

A rhinoceros of species Rhinoceros unicornis, in the family Rhinocerotidae.


Sumatran rhinoceros

Sumatran rhinoceros (plural Sumatran rhinoceros or Sumatran rhinoceroses)

Sumatran rhinoceros (plural)
Sumatran rhinoceroses (plural)

Dicerorhinus sumatrensis
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis#Translingual

A rhinoceros of species Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (family Rhinocerotidae).


borele

/ˈbɔɹ.əˌleɪ/

Probably from Tswana bodile (“black rhinoceros”).

(dated) A black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis).


rhinaster

From Ancient Greek ῥινός (rhinós) (genitive of ῥίς (rhís, “nose”)) + ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”).


rhinocerotid

(zoology) Any member of the family Rhinocerotidae, the rhinoceroses.


acerathere

An extinct rhinoceros of the genus †Aceratherium.


elasmotheriine

Any extinct rhinoceros of the genus †Elasmotherium.


woolly rhinoceros

An extinct rhinoceros (†Coelodonta antiquitatis), common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch.


white rhinoceros

white rhinoceros (plural white rhinoceros or white rhinoceroses)

white rhinoceros (plural)
white rhinoceroses (plural)

Perhaps simply from the color (compare black rhino), or perhaps from Dutch wijd (“wide”). See White Rhinoceros#Naming.

Ceratotherium simum
Ceratotherium simum#Translingual

An African species of rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum).

White Rhinoceros#Naming
White rhinoceros


black rhino

black rhinoceros
black rhinoceros#English


woolly rhino

Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:

woolly rhinoceros
woolly rhinoceros#English

(informal) Alternative form of woolly rhinoceros


Sumatran rhino

(informal) Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)


Javan rhinoceros

Javan rhinoceros (plural Javan rhinoceros or Javan rhinoceroses)

Javan rhinoceros (plural)
Javan rhinoceroses (plural)

A rhinoceros of species Rhinoceros sondaicus, in the family Rhinocerotidae.


aceratheriin

Clipping of translingual †Aceratheriinae.

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">†Aceratheriinae</i>

Any extinct rhinoceros of the subfamily †Aceratheriinae.


Merck's rhinoceros

en-noun

Merck's rhinoceros (plural Merck's rhinoceroses)

Named after Carl Heinrich Merck, who gave the initial name to the species in 1784 as Rhinoceros incisivus. The widely used junior synonym of the species Rhinoceros mercki dates from 1841, by Johann Jakob Kaup.

An extinct rhinoceros of species †Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis, living in Eurasia during the Pleistocene.


Merck's rhino

Named after Carl Heinrich Merck; see Merck's rhinoceros for more.

The range of Europe's rhinos extended far to the east: Merck's rhino as far as Afghanistan, and the narrow-nosed rhino as far as eastern China.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 198:


narrow-nosed rhino

narrow-nosed rhino (plural narrow-nosed rhinos)

Merck's rhino and the narrow-nosed rhino were close relatives, having diverged from a common ancestor a million or so years ago.

Narrow-nosed rhinoceros
narrow-nosed rhinoceros


narrow-nosed rhinoceros

narrow-nosed rhinoceros (plural narrow-nosed rhinoceroses)

An extinct species of rhinoceros (†Stephanorhinus hemitoechus), which lived in Europe and North Africa during the Pleistocene.


greater one-horned rhinoceros

Indian rhinoceros
Indian rhinoceros#English