Etymology

Noun

1. Any of several large herbivorous pachyderms native to Africa and Asia of the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.

Usage notes

• In natural history, the plural is often used, in the same way that the singular of the names of many wild animals is often used in natural history as the plural (compare , , etc).
• The plurals and are often found, formed by association with other Latin and Greek plurals, though they do not represent true Latin or Greek forms.
• The Latin-derived plural form is usually considered as a plural of the archaic form .

Hyponyms

• black rhinoceros
• Indian rhinoceros
• Javan rhinoceros
• lesser one-horned rhinoceros
• Sumatran rhinoceros
• white rhinoceros
• woolly rhinoceros