Meaning of rhinocerot | Babel Free

Definitions

The rhinoceros.

archaic

Examples

“Antoninus Pius the Emperor, did give many gifts unto the people, amongst which were both Tigers and Rhinocerots, (saith Iulius Capitalinus in his life).”

“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.”

“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.”

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

CEFR level