Rhinoceros

rī-nos′ėr-os, n. a genus forming a family of ungulate mammals, found in Africa and India, having a very thick skin lying in enormous folds, clumsy, and with one or two horns on the nose:— pl. Rhinoc′eroses .— adjs. Rhinocē′rial , Rhinocē′rical .— ns. Rhinoc′eros-auk , a bird belonging to the family Alcidæ ; Rhinoc′eros-bee′tle , a beetle of the genus Dynastes having a large up-curved horn on the head; Rhinoc′eros-bird , a beefeater, the hornbill; Rhinoc′eros-tick , the tick which infests rhinoceroses; Rhinoc′erot ( obs. ), a rhinoceros.— adjs. Rhinocerot′ic ; Rhinocerot′iform , shaped like a rhinoceros. [L.,—Gr. rhinokerōs — rhis , rhinos , nose, keras , a horn.]