rhinoceros: [13] Rhinoceros means literally ‘nose-horn’. The term was coined in Greek from rhīno-, the stem form of rhīs ‘nose’, and kéras ‘horn’ (a distant relative of English horn). Greek rhīnókerōs reached English via Latin rhīnocerōs. The abbreviated form rhino is first recorded in the 1880s. => antirrhinum, horn, keratin
rhinoceros (n.)
c. 1300, from Latin rhinoceros, from Greek rhinokeros, literally "nose-horned," from rhinos "nose" (a word of unknown origin) + keras "horn" (see kerato-). Related: Rhinocerotic.
What is the plural of rhinoceros? ... Well, Liddell and Scott seem to authorize 'rhinocerotes,' which is pedantic, but 'rhinoceroses' is not euphonious. [Sir Charles Eliot, "The East Africa Protectorate," 1905]
权威例句
1. Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.
卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。
2. A rhinoceros lumbered towards them.
一头犀牛笨重地向他们走来.
3. Prehistoric in appearance, the rhinoceros is indeed an ancient species.
在外观上象史前动物的印度犀牛确实是一个古老的种.
4. The game wardens tranquillized the rhinoceros with a drugged dart.