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rhinoceros

/rahy-nos-er-uhs/US // raɪˈnɒs ər əs //UK // (raɪˈnɒsərəs, -ˈnɒsrəs) //

犀牛,犀利的,犀利的人,灵犀

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural rhi·noc·er·os·es, rhi·noc·er·os.

    • : any of several large, thick-skinned, perissodactyl mammals of the family Rhinocerotidae, of Africa and India, having one or two upright horns on the snout: all rhinoceroses are endangered.
    • : Douay Bible. unicorn.

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Examples

  • It surpasses the paintings of horses and rhinoceros from the Chauvet Cave in France by 400 years.

  • South Africa is the most dangerous place in the world to be a rhinoceros.

  • This left them, in the end, with “rhinoceros” and “anthropoid.”

  • In and among the rest he inserted the words “rhinoceros” and “anthropoid.”

  • The rhinoceros, again looking pretty aimless and beaten down, was made—beautifully—of papier mache.

  • Even the gruff, grumpy, unsociable rhinoceros amiably allowed him to stroke its head with his trunk.

  • Among other things, the rhinoceros was knocked so heavily against the bars of his crib that they began to give way.

  • If this passenger was easy-going and polite, the rhinoceros, which came next, was very much the reverse.

  • That minute a tall tree fell in front of us and the raging rhinoceros went by.

  • After they had passed, a lull fell on the scene, which was soon broken by the grunt and snort of a rhinoceros.