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rhinoceros
  1. Any of several large herbivorous pachyderms 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.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The hide of the Javan rhinoceros is characterized by large plates of hard tissue joined by thinner, more flexible layers of skin.”
      “The Javan rhinoceros is often called the rarest large mammal on earth and perhaps the most endangered.”
      “The soldiers allegedly used the stolen money to buy items as diverse as cameras and rhinoceros horns, the officials said.”
rhinaster
  1. (obsolete) A kind of rhinoceros; the borele.
rhinocerote
  1. Obsolete form of rhinoceros.
rhinocerot
  1. (rare) The rhinoceros.
rhino
  1. (colloquial) rhinoceros
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The rhino gracefully roamed the grassy plains, its single horn shining in the sunlight.”
      “Any effects of rhino horn are almost certainly placebo effects, of which scarcity, improbability, and high cost play a part.”
      “He fell to the ground, the large rhino horn protruding from his chest while black, sticky blood pooled around him.”
rhino
  1. (slang, archaic) money
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The rhino gracefully roamed the grassy plains, its single horn shining in the sunlight.”
      “Any effects of rhino horn are almost certainly placebo effects, of which scarcity, improbability, and high cost play a part.”
      “He fell to the ground, the large rhino horn protruding from his chest while black, sticky blood pooled around him.”
rhinocerotes
  1. (archaic) plural of rhinoceros
  2. (archaic) plural of rhinocerot
  3. Examples:
    1. “Following the rules of Greek grammar, that would mean the plural should be rhinocerotes but most dictionaries accept rhinoceroses.”
rhinoceri
  1. (humorous) plural of rhinoceros
  2. Examples:
    1. “If she has good luck she will bring us an elephant, or a brace of rhinoceri, or perhaps a few dozen people to stay our hunger.”
rhinoceroi
  1. plural of rhinoceros
rhinocerots
  1. plural of rhinocerot
rhinoceroses
  1. plural of rhinoceros
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Once upon a time, ground sloths or camels or even ancestral rhinoceroses may have inhabited your part of the country.”
      “Dartford Museum in Market Street, houses some remains of animals found in the area including woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses.”
      “Thousands of animals including white rhinoceroses and kangaroos have come from 14 countries, such as Tanzania, South Africa and Argentina.”
rhinasters
  1. plural of rhinaster
rhinos
  1. plural of rhino
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The remaining toes not used for walking are either reduced, as in pigs and tapirs, or completely lost, as in rhinos and most ruminants.”
      “Animals like tigers, rhinos and elephants are hunted for the high mercantile value they attract in the international markets.”
      “Some of the most endangered species in the world are the rhinos, particularly the white and Javan rhinoceroses.”
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