Английский Этимологический словарь - rhinoceros
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Rhinoceros
rhinoceros
- 13c., from L. rhinoceros, from Gk. rhinokeros, from rhinos "nose" + keras "horn." Shortened form rhino is first attested 1884. "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]
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~ n a large heavy African or Asian animal with thick skin and either one or two horns on its nose ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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(rhinoceroses) A rhinoceros is a large Asian or African animal with thick grey skin and a horn, or two horns, on its nose. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural -noceroses; also -noceros or rhinoceri) Etymology: Middle English rinoceros, from Anglo-French, from Latin rhinocerot-, ~, from Greek rhinokerot-, rhinokeros, from rhin- + keras horn — more at horn Date: 14th century any of a family (Rhinocerotidae) of large heavyset herbivorous perissodactyl mammals of Africa and Asia that have one or two upright keratinous horns on the snout and thick gray to brown skin with little hair ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. same or rhinoceroses) any of various large thick-skinned plant-eating ungulates of the family Rhinocerotidae of Africa and S. Asia, with one horn or in some cases two horns on the nose and plated or folded skin. Phrases and idioms rhinoceros bird = ox-pecker. rhinoceros horn a mass of keratinized fibres, reputed to have medicinal or aphrodisiac powers. Derivatives rhinocerotic adj. Etymology: ME f. L f. Gk rhinokeros (as RHINO-, keras horn) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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носорог; pl носороговые (Rhinocerotidae) – African black rhinoceros – Asiatic two-horned rhinoceros – black rhinoceros – Indian rhinoceros – Javan rhinoceros – Malayan rhinoceros – smaller one-horned rhinoceros – Sumatran rhinoceros – white rhinoceros – wooly rhinoceros ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. зоол. носорог (Rhinocerotidae) 2. "слон", "бегемот" (о человеке) rhinology 1. мед. ринология ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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