Other forms: rhinoceroses
A rhinoceros is a huge thick-skinned animal with a horn on its nose. A white rhinoceros, charge like a rhinoceros, hunt the rhinoceros.
The horn is not bone but keratin, the same material as hair and fingernails, and the belief that it cures illness has driven poaching to the point where the northern white rhinoceros has two females left alive and no males at all.
1nounrhinocerosA huge thick-skinned animal with a horn on its nose.
“A rhinoceros charged at the jeep, lowering its great horn.”
rhinoceros is an animal.
Also accepted in games: rhino
Greek rhinokeros joins rhis, a nose, and keras, a horn. The Latin form gave English the spelling.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱerh₂-
Latin
rhīnocerōs
English, today
rhinoceros
Built from
From Latin rhīnocerōs, from ῥῑνόκερως, composed of ῥῑ́ς (“nose, of (the) nose”) + κέρας (“horn”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA